How can you expect 3 (minutes) when each pancakes need one minute for each side ? Or maybe you prefer semi cooked pancakes?... or i didn't understand something ?

400 people have solved this. It's supposed to be tricky, you need to think outside the box.

This cannot be right. I've even had friends double-check my logic, and they all agree that my code should work, and that whoever wrote the problem was incorrect.
imo I think the person who made this needs to take it down and fix it.

why would you ever have empty space in the pan?

yeah that's what I'm saying. but if you have more time spent than the minimal, then that is what's going on. unless you're burning them that is.

the task was written by a person who does not know how to write them, just guess what the person was thinking when he wrote it

If you're trying to cook as many "cutlets" as possible so you get to "n" quickest; why would you ever have empty space in the pan? This is the part that doesn't make sense. Any sort of "trick question" type of solution really shouldn't apply to a 7 kyu kata, regardless of my humility.

a bit of humility might serve you well btw. you might not see how to do something, that doesn't mean it can't be done or that others are wrong. and when others are wrong, they probably don't deserve the language you apply.

You've got some empty areas left in your frying pan some of the time. Put them to use, save some time. There's clearly potential in that, and it might very well amount to an odd number of minutes that you save by making better use of your frying pan area and time.

Nope. I'd recommend people spending their valuable time on kata that are worded correctly and make logical sense. If pancakes take two minutes for each side then you should never have an expected result be an odd number. I don't see how you can defend this.

I suggest looking at the smallest test that you fail, consider how much time you have there (since you're told what the expected time is) and then what you can possibly do in that time, and what you MUST do within that time.

Your logic is not correct, at least not for what the kata asks, that is, fast cooking. You can always skip, come back later or forfeit (under certain conditions) the kata if you don't know how to solve it.

someone needs to step up their pancake game

This kata is frustratingly dumb. I solved it with correct logic but the test cases don't make any logical sense. Way too frustrating for a simple problem. Complete waste of time.