What do you guys think about competitive programming, how does it impacts your programming in the long run?
I feel depressed when I take more than enough time to complete a competitive programming challenge marked as "Easy". 😥

That's totally fine! It surely doesn't assures to make you the best but better! Everytime you take that 'enough time' to do an easy question, you end being better than what you were last hour. I am personally not excellent at it ( just a student in India ) but sometimes I am surprised that I solved medium level question. It gave you confidence for sure! That's like stairs..step by step. Keep going and you will not even realize where you end up.
Keep looking at others' solutions after you attempted. YOU WILL LEARN!
Keep Coding! :)