Striver A2Z vs Love Babbar 450 vs Apna College: Which Sheet Should You Follow?

Pick one sheet, not three. The three popular Indian DSA sheets overlap heavily, and the time people lose is not on choosing the wrong sheet but on switching between them. Below is how they compare, using the overlap we can count in the DSA Tracker dataset, and a plain rule for choosing.

The overlap, in numbers

DSA Tracker curates 370 problems across 22 topics, and each problem records which sheets include it. Of those 370, 315 appear in the Striver A2Z sheet, 248 appear in the Love Babbar 450 sheet, and 104 appear in the Apna College sheet. Seventy-five problems appear in all three.

Those 75 are the useful part. If three independent sheet authors all picked the same problem, it is a core pattern, not one author's taste. The site lists them on its Consensus 75 page, and they are a sensible starting block whichever sheet you choose.

How the three differ

	Striver A2Z	Love Babbar 450	Apna College
Problems in this tracker	315	248	104
Shape	Step-by-step, easy to hard inside each topic	Topic-wise list, less guided	Shortest list of the three
Best for	Full preparation with a guided order	Revising a known list quickly	A first pass when time is short

The counts above come from our own dataset, not from the sheets' official totals, so they describe what this tracker includes, not every problem each sheet has ever listed.

Choosing by your situation

If you have three months or more and start from a weak base, follow Striver A2Z. Its ordering does the planning for you: each topic moves from easy to hard, so you are never guessing what to do next. The cost is size. You need discipline to keep a long sequence moving.

If you already know the basics and want to check coverage, use Love Babbar 450. A topic-wise list is easy to scan for gaps. It gives less handholding, so it suits someone who can judge their own weak areas.

If your first round is a month or two away, start with the Apna College list. It is the smallest of the three here, and finishing a small list is worth more than half-finishing a big one. When it is done, use the Striver problems it did not cover as the next block.

The mistake to avoid

Do not merge the three lists into one giant checklist. A merged list runs to hundreds of problems with no order, and you spend your energy managing the list instead of solving. Overlap also hides in the titles: the same problem often appears under different names, so a merge double-counts.

Sorting by role helps more than sorting by sheet. A frontend candidate and an embedded candidate need different topics first, regardless of which sheet the problems came from. Once you have chosen your sheet, order it by what your target role asks about, and skip the topics that role rarely tests.

Next step: open the Consensus 75 list, solve the ten easiest problems on it this week, and see how they feel. If they feel manageable, take the Striver order from there. If they feel heavy, spend a week on the Apna College list first.