Hello saudiGuy,

Ultimately, I completely agree with your overriding sentiment that it is time to put this sad, sorry and upsetting episode in the past and move on

The only reason I mentioned that I have solved nearly 1900 Kata on CodeWars was to try and portray:

(a)
By virtue of the number of Kata I have solved, I must logically be a reasonable programmer

(In this regard, I do not claim to be the best programmer in the world and there is absolutely no doubt that there are far, far better programmers than myself just on this website alone)

and

(b)
I rarely ask the author of the challenge to review the tests that have been programmed

(I am generally wary of leaving any Comments for fear of a 'keyboard warrior' response like has been seen in this conversation trail)

With regards to the aspect of authenticness:

(a)
I can very safely say that I have solved every Kata on this website honestly

and

(b)
I have no basis to believe that any other Codewars user may be solving Kata dishonestly (and I think I would share the same contempt as yourself for anyone that is using this site dishonestly to gain false credit)

As we have now both said, it is now time to consign this sad, sorry and upsetting episode to the past

and

I think it will probably be a very, very, very long time before I even think about making another Comment on Codewars

Hello saudiGuy,

I am in broad agreement with the principle of what you are saying and I genuinely hope that CodeWars is full of amazing people

In this regard, I wish to express my sincere compliments to yourself because I have perceived your post as an attempt to try and:

(a)
Portray that CodeWars does have some amazing people on it (which I hope it does)

and

(b)
Restore my faith in humanity and/or society - but the experience of this conversation trail has seemingly only drawn out the 'non-amazing' people who also unfortunately frequent this website

As far I am concerned, the crux of this conversation has been:

(a)
I respectfully asked for the author of this challenge to review the tests that were programmed to this challenge - and, in this regard I would like to thank dinglemouse for their reply and for taking the time to give the example test the 'once over'

(b)
All I initially feel I got for my troubles was to be trolled by one CodeWars user trolling myself as a 'buffoon' and another trolling myself as someone with a 'neurodevelopmental disorder' - and I have blocked four CodeWars users (to date) as a result of this conversation trail

(c)
The first polite/constructive (i.e. - non-abusive) reply I got was from Karacott who, using facts and constructive language, outlined that the example Array had eleven items and not ten

and

(d)
In my first reply to Karacott, I acknowledged that the Array "[0,0,3,0,0,0,0,-2,0,0,0]" had eleven numbers and not ten (i.e. - I admitted that 'mistake')

With that being said, my experience of this challenge as I have been attempting to solve this has been:

--->
When I got coding to pass the example test, the coding then failed the random tests

and

--->
When I got the coding to pass the random tests, it then failed the example test

In closing, I can only re-iterate:

(a)
When my coding is unsuccessful, my initial premise is to presume that there is a flaw in my coding

(b)
If I am reasonably satisfied that my coding is sound, I check the Comments of the challenge to see if others are having (or have had) issues with the challenge

...and only if the challenge shows evidence of people expressing problems and/or issues...

(c)
I respectfully ask the author of the challenge to review the tests that have been programmed within the challenge

In this regard, I have taken Step C less than 10 times, and I have completed nearly 1900 Kata - and so it should be apparent to all concerned that I rarely take this step and I do not do it lightly

Hello *Kacarott

In broad principle, I am in agreement with the general overtone sentiments of your post

but

Before elaborating further on the previous sentence, I wish to make the following clear to all CodeWars users that at the time of sending:

(a)
I am inside the Top 900 on the CodeWars Leaderboard

(b)
I have completed nearly 1900 Kata

and

(c)
Having reviewed all of my seldomly made Comments on this website, I have made the request for a challenge author to review their programmed test less than ten times and, to give a rough calculation of the frequency of request "10 / 1900 = 0.53%"

With regards to my attempts to solve this Kata:

When my coding and it passed the random tests it was then failing the example test

and

When I tweaked my coding and it passed the random tests it was then failing the example test

As I have stated in a previous post:

When I work on a challenge and my coding is unsuccessful, I initially work to the premise that there is a flaw in my coding - but when I am reasonably satisfied that my coding is correct I then review the Comments to see if others are encountering similar problems, which may indicate a flaw in the programmed tests

In this instance, I have perceived from reading the Comments linked to this challenge that there were indeed others who were encountering similar issues - which re-inforced a perception that there may potentially be a flaw in the programmed tests

I think that Point C from the above outlines that I do not make a request of a challenge author either frequently or lightly

I am not interested in changing anyone else's opinion - as my faith in both humanity and society decreases with every day that passes because of conduct like that of some of the other CodeWars users - but during this conversation trail:

(a)
In a now deleted conversation trail I have been trolled as a 'buffoon'

and

(b)
In a post which is still on this challenge at the time of posting, I have been trolled as someone having a 'neurodevelopmental disorder' which is, at best, insenstive to people who genuinely have such a medical condition

If you do not delete all of the conversation trails that have been initiated by myself then in my considered personal opinion:

(a) You are implicity saying that the above two examples are acceptable conduct both on CodeWars and in society in general

(b) You will seriously and heavily discourage people from making (acceptable) Comments on CodeWars going forwards

Hello Kacarott,

In direct answer to your question, I am happy to accept that "[0,0,3,0,0,0,0,-2,0,0,0]" has eleven (11) numbers in it

With that being said, in the several attempts I have had to try and resolve this challenge I have had instances where I have passed the example test but then the solution then fails the random tests and then if I tweak the solution to seemingly pass the random tests I have then found that my coding fails the example test - and from reading the Comments linked to this challenge I have gained the perception that there have been a few others that have encountered similar issues

When I work on a challenge and my coding is unsuccessful, I initially work to the premise that there is a flaw in my coding - but when I am reasonably satisfied that my coding is correct I then review the Comments to see if others are encountering similar problems, which may indicate a flaw in the programmed tests

In this instance, I have perceived from reading the Comments linked to this challenge that there were indeed others who were encountering similar issues - which re-inforced a perception that there may potentially be a flaw in the programmed tests

On that basis, earlier today I respectfully asked the author of this challenge to review the tests that had been programmed into this challenge - but I regret to advise that I have received some unbecoming comments from some CodeWars users in response to that respectful request to the extent that I have taken the measure of blocking two CodeWars users (which I think, prior to today, is an unprecendented measure)

I still do believe that the author of this challenge should give all of the programmed tests a 'once over' to ensure that all of the programmed tests do contain the correct results - but I obviously cannot compel the author of this challenge to do that

From what I can see, you appear to be a moderator on the CodeWars website and, on that basis, I would therefore be extremely grateful if you could please delete any conversation trails that I have initiated from this challenge so that I can put the events of today behind me

Hello Blind4Basics,

I did not feel my request for the author of this challenge to review the tests to be unreasonable, but I would like this conversation trail to be deleted as the conduct of others who have responded has upset myself a great deal

I would therefore like this conversation trail to be deleted in its entirety so that I can try to forget about this upsetting episode, which I have to say has greatly discouraged myself from making further comments/enquiries in the future

If there is a moderator of CodeWars that is viewing this comment then I would be very grateful if you could please look to delete this entire conversation trail from the Codewars website

I maintain my position that I believe that the author of this challenge should review all of the tests within this challenge for the coherent and objective reasons I have given

If you do not have anything nice to say then do not say anything at all and, given that you clearly do not understand this, I have now Blocked yourself on CodeWars

You are formally advised to not attempt to make any further contact with myself again at any point in time in the future

Hello awesomead

I maintain my position that I believe that the author of this challenge should review all of the tests within this challenge

I have given a coherent and logical demonstration of why I believe the example test is flawed and it must be noted that I have observed that there are several other comments on this challenge to the same effect as my own

The only other thing I would like to say is that if you do not have anything nice to say then do not say anything at all

Hello EPiph,

In the example I have listed the board is ten (10) squares in length (i.e. - the last index is 9)

5 (five) + 5 (five) = 10 (ten) and therefore if you are on square 5 (five) and you throw a 5 (five) then you cannot make a move

I therefore do not consider this issue to be resolved and I maintain my request for yourself to review all of the tests within this challenge

Hello EPiph,

In the example I have listed the board is ten (10) squares in length (i.e. - the last index is 9)

5 (five) + 5 (five) = 10 (ten) and therefore if you are on square 5 (five) and you throw a 5 (five) then you cannot make a move

I therefore do not consider this issue to be resolved and I maintain my request for yourself to review all of the tests within this challenge

Hello,

Can the author of this challenge please review all of the tests within this challenge

The answer to the example test should be 9 (nine) but the challenge is seeking the answer of 10 (ten) which, as per the below analysis, I believe to be incorrect

dice = [2,1,5,1,5,4]

board = [0,0,3,0,0,0,0,-2,0,0,0]

Throw #1

Index at Start of Turn: 5

Thrown: 2

Move To Index: 2

Land On: 3 (a ladder)

Index at End of Turn: 5

Throw #2

Index at Start of Turn: 5

Thrown: 1

Move To Index: 6

Land On: 0

Index at End of Turn: 6

Throw #3

Index at Start of Turn: 6

Thrown: 5 (a higher number than is needed to reach the final square, so no movement)

Move To Index: 6

Land On: 0

Index at End of Turn: 6

Throw #4

Index at Start of Turn: 6

Thrown: 1

Move To Index: 7

Land On: -2 (a snake)

Index at End of Turn: 5

Throw #5

Index at Start of Turn: 5

Thrown: 5 (a higher number than is needed to reach the final square, so no movement)

Move To Index: 5

Land On: 0

Index at End of Turn: 5

Throw #6

Index at Start of Turn: 5

Thrown: 4

Move To Index: 9

Land On: 0

Index at End of Turn: 9

FORMAL REQUEST FOR BETTER EXPLANATION OF CHALLENGE

Can the author of this challenge please look to:

(a)
Provide a far better explanation of this challenge than is currently being given

(b)
Provide a clear definition and/or clarification of what an 'alphanumeric' character is

and

(c)
Review the accuracy of all of the tests that have been built into this challenge

SCRUTINISATION OF EXAMPLE TEST

For the test "$aaabbbccddd_!jJpqlQx_.///yYabababhii_"

If the 'alphanumeric' characters are "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" (i.e - the lower case letters 'a-z' and numbers '0-9')

then

The original text of "$aaabbbccddd_!jJpqlQx_.///yYabababhii_" gets reduced to "aaabbbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababhii"

If the answer is 25 then there are five possible excerpts that could constitute the answer to the test

Possibility A - Indices 0-24 - aaabbbccdddjjpqlqxyyababa

Possibility B - Indices 1-25 - aabbbccdddjjpqlqxyyababab

Possibility C - Indices 2-26 - abbbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababh

Possibility D - Indices 3-27 - bbbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababhi

Possibility E - Indicies 4-28 - bbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababhii

For it to be possible for there to be a palindrome, there can be no more than one instance of a letter which appears an odd number of times

Using only the letters 'a-h' I can demonstrate that none of the above five possibilites can be correct, and hence that the answer to the test of "$aaabbbccddd_!jJpqlQx_.///yYabababhii_" cannot be 25

Possibility A - Indices 0-24 - aaabbbccdddjjpqlqxyyababa

a = 6 times (even)

b = 5 times (odd)

c = 2 times (even)

d = 3 times (odd)

Possibility B - Indices 1-25 - aabbbccdddjjpqlqxyyababab

a = 5 times (odd)

b = 6 times (even)

c = 2 times (even)

d = 3 times (odd)

Possibility C - Indices 2-26 - abbbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababh

a = 4 times (even)

b = 6 times (even)

c = 2 times (even)

d = 3 times (odd)

h = 1 time (odd)

Possibility D - Indices 3-27 - bbbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababhi

a = 3 times (odd)

b = 6 times (odd)

c = 2 times (even)

d = 3 times (odd)

h = 1 time (odd)

Possibility E - Indicies 4-28 - bbccdddjjpqlqxyyabababhii

a = 3 times (odd)

b = 5 times (odd)

c = 2 times (even)

d = 3 times (odd)

h = 1 time (odd)

On the above detailed and logical reasoning, the answer to the test "$aaabbbccddd_!jJpqlQx_.///yYabababhii_" cannot be 25 (twenty five)

Hello Galvlbit,

Python was the only language I tried to resolve this challenge in but, if I had resolved in Python, I would have tried to solve the challenge in both JavaScript and Ruby

As I say, from what I have seen of the challenge the major stress is building the dictionary/array as opposed to the building the answer with programming in the relevant programming language

The solutions that I have seen after I forfeited the kata were essentially in line with my own attempts - which only reinforced my belief that a pre-loaded dictionary or array would greatly assist with this challenge

Hello Galvlbit,

I am generally very wary of leaving any comments out of fear of getting some sort of 'keyboard warrior' hostile style response, and so I would very much like to say big thank you to yourself for taking my comment as constructive feedback which it seems you have taken on board

The comment about the space character (" ") was based on a general overview of the comments that have been left on this challenge already, and perhaps that perception was heightened by the fact that I was able to get the third test to pass ("NOPQRSTUVWXYZ") but none of the others

Based on what I could see when I tried to diagnose why the first test ("HELLO WORLD") was failing, I was of the impression that the obstacle was in the space character as opposed to any of the letters

If you are able to program the characters into some form of pre-loaded dictionary or array and then incorporate this into the challenge then I think this will significantly improve it

In closing, I would just like to say thank you once again for taking my comments in a constructive and appreciative context