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Lists & Arrays medium

Rotate array

Rotate a list right by k positions in place.

arrays in-place
+20 pts 18m
Lists & Arrays medium

Flatten nested list

Yield every integer from an arbitrarily nested list, depth-first.

recursion generators
+25 pts 22m
Lists & Arrays easy

Remove duplicates (sorted)

Return a sorted list with duplicates removed.

arrays two-pointer
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Merge two sorted arrays

Merge two sorted arrays into one sorted array.

arrays merge two-pointer
+12 pts 12m
Lists & Arrays medium

Merge intervals

Merge all overlapping intervals and return a sorted result.

intervals sort
+30 pts 26m
Lists & Arrays medium

Product except self

Return an array where output[i] is the product of all elements except nums[i], without using division.

arrays prefix-sum
+25 pts 20m
Lists & Arrays hard

Sliding window maximum

Return the maximum of each window of size k as it slides across an array.

sliding-window deque arrays
+40 pts 35m
Lists & Arrays easy

Running Product of Integers

Given a list of integers, return a new list where each element at index i is the product of all elements from index 0 to i.

prefix product lists
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Second Largest Unique Value

Return the second largest distinct integer from a list, or None if it doesn't exist.

sorting unique arrays
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Move Zeros to the End

Reorder a list in-place, pushing all zeros to the end while preserving the order of non-zero numbers.

lists in-place two-pointer
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Chunk a list into n-sized parts

Write a function that divides a list into sublists of at most n elements.

list chunking slicing
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Rotate Left by k

Implement a function that rotates a list left by k positions.

rotation lists slicing
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Find Missing Number 1 to n

Given a list containing n-1 distinct integers from 1 to n, find the missing number without using extra space.

arrays math search
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays medium

Product of All Except Zeros Handling

Given a list of integers, return a list where each element is the product of all other elements, handling zeros correctly.

product arrays zero-handling
+20 pts 25m
Lists & Arrays easy

Interleave Two Lists

Write a function that interleaves two lists element by element, preserving order.

lists merge indexing
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Keep only even indexes

Given a list, return a new list containing only the elements at even indices (0, 2, 4, ...).

list slicing indexing
+5 pts 5m
Lists & Arrays easy

Running Maximum

Implement a function that returns a list where each element is the largest value seen so far.

lists cumulative maximum
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Difference of Consecutive Elements

Given a list of numbers, return a new list where each element is the difference between consecutive elements.

list iteration math
+8 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

All Unique Values Keep Order

Remove duplicates from a list, keeping only the first occurrence of each value while preserving relative order.

deduplicate order list
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays medium

Partition around a pivot value

Implement an in-place partition of a list around a given pivot value, returning the boundary index.

lists partition two-pointer
+20 pts 20m
Lists & Arrays easy

Insert into a Sorted List

Implement a function that inserts a value into a sorted list at the correct position using binary search.

lists binary-search insertion
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Average excluding min and max

Return the average of a list after discarding the lowest and highest elements, handling edge cases.

lists statistics sorting
+7 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Zip lists into pairs

Write a function that takes two lists and returns a list of two-element sublists pairing elements by index up to the shortest length.

zip lists pairs
+7 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Longest Run of Equal Values

Compute the length of the longest run (consecutive block) of equal elements in a list.

lists consecutive run-length
+8 pts 10m

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