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Container With Most Water

Given an array of heights, find the maximum area between two vertical lines that can hold water.

two-pointers array maximization
+20 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window hard

Trapping Rain Water

Given an array of non-negative integers representing an elevation map, compute how much water it can trap after raining.

array two-pointers water-trapping
+40 pts 30m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window easy

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

Given a list of daily stock prices, determine the maximum profit achievable by buying on one day and selling on a later day.

arrays sliding-window profit
+10 pts 15m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Sort Colors (Dutch National Flag)

Implement the Dutch National Flag algorithm to sort an array of 0, 1, 2 in one pass.

in-place two-pointers sorting
+20 pts 25m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window easy

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Implement a function that returns the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.

strings sliding-window two-pointers
+10 pts 15m
Two Pointers & Sliding Window hard

Minimum Window Substring

Implement a sliding window algorithm to find the minimum window substring containing all characters of a given pattern.

sliding-window two-pointers strings
+45 pts 35m
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 hard

Subarrays with K different ints

Count the number of contiguous subarrays that contain exactly K distinct integers.

sliding-window two-pointers hashmap
+40 pts 40m

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Two Pointers & Sliding Window — Python coding challenges

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