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925 challenges 556 easy 323 medium 46 hard
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
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
Strings & Text medium

Longest Palindrome Substring

Given a string s, return the longest substring that reads the same forwards and backwards.

strings palindrome substring
+20 pts 25m
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

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

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
Stacks & Queues medium

Decode String Stack

Decode a compressed string with repeated substrings like '3[a2[c]]' to 'accaccacc' using a stack-based approach.

stacks string parsing
+25 pts 20m

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Guide: free Python coding challenges

Practice Python by solving problems

PythonSkillset challenges are hands-on coding exercises from beginner to advanced. Open a challenge, read the problem, write Python in the split-pane editor, and run tests with Pyodide — no install required.

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  1. Pick a category — basics, algorithms, strings, and more
  2. Open a challenge, read the statement, and edit the starter code
  3. Run tests, fix failures, then try a related quiz or tutorial lesson

Challenges vs tutorials and quizzes

Challenges test what you can build under constraints. For guided teaching, use our Python tutorials. For quick checks, try quizzes or copy snippets from code samples.