Every day honor goes up a few blips because some kind user out there has up-voted something I did (?) or completed an authored Kata (?) or ... what else... (?). It's mostly just a big mystery.

I know about the https://www.codewars.com/users/[me]/site-events page. That's kind of interesting but it really doesn't indicate what's changing.

So is there any way to know where those extra points come from? Which Katas are actively being solved? Which solution is getting upvoted?

The points are nice but imo it'd be more useful just to know what exactly it was that others thought was worth up-voting.

Yeah the idea of the kyu system is that its "number of degrees away from master".

haha, I forgot how it works! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

6kyu is better than 7kyu.

It goes from 8kyu to 1kyu and then up from 1dan to 8dan.

So, don't fear! :-) All right!

The last kata I did lowered my level from 7kyu to 6kyu, and also in my profile says my next rank is gonna be 5kyu. My honor did improved on the other hand. What's going on?

I see. Thanks for you answer

I made this Kata for Ruby, somebody has translated to Python, so I'm guessing that's where the formatting issue has come in.

Thanks. I'm understanding it is not a python syntax. Then what's the point in using it instead of the dictionary syntax included in python? It could be {"a": 2, "bc": 1} and we get the same info and don't have to implement a way to read it. (BTW I copied it wrong the first time in my question)

It looks like a PHP-stye associative array: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

Similar to Python's dict, just different syntax:

dict = {2: ["1"], 1: ["b", "c"]} 

Is a dict of lists.

I still can't find info. I've tried exploring doing a = {2=>["1"],1=>["b", "c"]} in my python interpreter(I thought it would be something like a dictionary) but I just get a syntax error.

this seems to be a key value pair

What kind of input is {2=>["1"],1=>["b", "c"]} ? I've never seen this before and I can't find info wihout knowing the name. Thanks

Congrats!

You are welcome :)

I passed the kata. Thanks for your help!