Yeah this one was actually extremely strange. Like I said before it took me 3 days and when I finally DID manage to figure it out and see everyone elses stuff, the top rated one was completely incomprehensible and looked almost as if it shouldn't be possible. But it was

Either way, good luck with the rest of your kata. I got Kyu 4 kata myself and it seems almost ridiculous what some of this wants. And have fun, very important that part.

I can't give too much of a hint, but it's best to make a seperate function for handling the weirdness of the question.

Sorry if that's not very specific but that's about all I can really say. Though it's been some time so you probably already solved this

I skipped mine because I couldn't get regex to work on it. This is a much more elegant solution. Good stuff!

This is quite possibly the most incomprehensible gibberish I've ever seen. The fact it works is incredible and I'm thoroughly impressed.

This one packs so much complexity into a single line. This has a lot to unpack and I'm gonna be studying this for an hour or 2.

This is really cool!

XD

Fair enough. I completely overlooked that

One of the weird sample tests uses 1 and expects 1, not -1-.

1 is an odd number and so the test should have dashes

Edit: forgot to mention this is the JavaScript version

This is literally the programming equivalent of the "increasingly verbose meme"