what about my attempt? saving a flag by character

You know, after rethinking, I think a map, while taking more memory, would require less iterations than using strings.Index or strings.LastIndex like I used. I guess it's a tradeoff.

Don't see a need for a map or rune here. This looks like you are counting runes but since you only need to know if the characters occur more than once, you don't need to keep track of the count. Therefore, you don't need a map.

You also don't need to use rune here since the question explicitly says letters and numbers only.