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Python Basics medium

Longest Substring with K Repeating Characters

Return the length of the longest substring of a given string in which every character appears at least K times.

strings sliding-window substring
+18 pts 20m
Python Basics medium

Jump Game Minimum Jumps

Given an array of non-negative integers where each element is the maximum jump length, compute the minimum jumps to reach the last index.

arrays greedy minimum-jumps
+20 pts 25m
Strings & Text medium

Find all anagrams

Return all starting indices where any anagram of a given word appears as a substring.

anagrams strings sliding-window
+20 pts 20m
Strings & Text medium

Substring Anagrams

Return all start indices in a string where a substring of length k is an anagram of a pattern string.

strings sliding-window hash-map
+20 pts 25m
Lists & Arrays medium

Convolve 1D Signal

Write a function that computes the 1D convolution of two lists in 'full' mode.

convolution arrays sliding-window
+20 pts 20m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Character Replacement Window

Given a string and a number k, find the length of the longest substring that can be made uniform by replacing at most k characters.

sliding-window two-pointers strings
+30 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Permutation in String

Determine if any permutation of a shorter string appears as a contiguous substring in a longer string using an efficient sliding window.

sliding-window two-pointers hash-map
+25 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Count Nice Subarrays

Given an array of integers, count the number of contiguous subarrays that contain exactly k odd numbers.

sliding-window two-pointers subarray
+25 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Minimum Size Subarray Sum

Given an array of positive integers, return the minimal length of a contiguous subarray with sum at least target, or 0 if none exists.

sliding-window two-pointers array
+25 pts 30m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Fruit into Baskets

Given an array of integers representing fruit types, return the maximum number of fruits you can collect in a contiguous subarray with at most two distinct types.

sliding-window two-pointers hash-map
+25 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Binary Subarray with Sum

Given a binary list and a goal sum, count the number of subarrays that add up to that goal.

sliding-window two-pointers subarray
+20 pts 20m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Subarray product less than K

Count contiguous subarrays where the product of all elements is strictly less than a target K.

sliding-window two-pointers subarray
+25 pts 30m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Longest Substring with At Most K Distinct Characters

Given a string and an integer k, find the length of the longest substring that contains at most k distinct characters.

sliding-window strings hash-map
+25 pts 20m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Sliding Window Median

Given a list of integers and a positive window size k, return the median of each sliding window of length k.

sliding-window median sorting
+25 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Longest Repeating Character Replacement

Given a string and an integer k, return the length of the longest substring that can be made of identical characters after at most k replacements.

sliding-window strings hash-map
+30 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Count Nice Subarrays

Count subarrays that contain exactly k odd numbers.

sliding-window two-pointers counting
+25 pts 30m
Heaps & Priority Queues medium

Sliding Window Maximum using Heap

Given an array of integers and a window size k, return an array of maximums for each contiguous subarray of length k.

heap sliding-window deque
+20 pts 20m

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