Start simple: find a list (with answers). Don't try to "solve" them, just read the questions and try within a minute or so to name a data structure or algorithm

Start simple: find a list (with answers). Don't try to "solve" them, just read the questions and try within a minute or so to name a data structure or algorithm -- something you'd expect most undergraduate intro classes to cover -- that seems likely to be part of the solution. Check your work, keep track of which ones you got right/wrong, and move onto the next question. Re-visit the ones you got wrong first. Try them again, repeat until you've gotten them all right (this might just be because you remember the solution from looking it up, that's fine, you'll have plenty of time to forget by the time we get back to it :). Now, revisit the ones where you had the right data structure on the first go. HOW would that data structure help? Go a level deeper on actually trying to solve it. I can't guarantee this will be fun, but it should be fast. A few minutes here on there on any given problem, going one level deeper each time you visit it. Eventually you'll have the whole algorithm for one of the problems, likely using some common data structure like a hash map, tree, or heap. Code it in a language with a good set of algorithmic primitives, use every tool the library gives you (don't worry about remembering how the data structures work on this pass). Hopefully with the whole algorithm in mind and all of the tools at your disposal, this is "just plumbing". Rinse, repeat. Somewhere in there, do the same with the complexity analysis (time and space!). Next time, try it where you have to build the data structure by hand. Then one day you'll see a problem not on your original list, and you'll immediately think "red-black tree with a hash table lookaside buffer, but I wouldn't want to have to build the RB tree by hand if they asked me to, so AVL tree because the complexity is the same and I can bang out the code like it's what I do every morning before breakfast". Like I said, it might not be fun (at least at first), but it is a way to break up the practice into digestible chunks. Also it builds on the strategy that I've seen work best in interviews -- if you treat each step of iterative deepening of the solution as a point where you'd talk with the interviewer about what you're thinking and why, you give them a lot to go on about your thought process and a chance to course correct if you misunderstood the question or your heuristic for how to approach it simply came up wrong.