just else and one x.count are extra. Much better to call functoin once.

thanks for lowering my self-esteem

Good work dude, you are learning and you got to the solution. That guy is a douche, criticizing beginners code

Thanks for the feedback i was a beginner back then

If there are no good ideas ("as is often the case") then it traverses array only once.

This always traverses array two full times.