Holy moly O_o

Same for me

Very nice. Thanks for this, I did not know that (following is LLM generated):

You can use JavaScript’s default parameters to add extra functionality. In this case, the 4th argument, which would be the array, is ignored (_), and instead, a default value is calculated based on the 3rd argument (c % 2)

Finally there is smth outstanding

I think yes, it should be optimized a bit

Most users voted 6 kyu, and the remaining ones voted 4 kyu. Oh boy, a proper reference scale is nowhere to be seen.

great, do you want the other method to consistently time out?

yes, it gives same answer as Dijkstra, but 10 times faster

Is this a guaranteed smallest number of steps algorithm?

Python: Random tests: 616 of 616 passed. Fixed tests 2 of 10 passed. How stupid is this 🤯 ?

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shitty tests

I got that result when testing using the initial solution (just returning the given map).

I could not reproduce this issuie (maybe you know how to do it? ), but I slightly adjusted that function.

I think the corrected board message has the strip on the wrong char:

The strip is written on the expected char instead of the user's.