Oh, never thought of that. I'll probably take this kata down by the end of the day anyway.

Yeah I don't think this kata will last but it was mainly to see how the kata-making process worked and hopefully getting something out there. Thanks again for all the comments and I hope that my next idea is a better fit.

I have made some revisions (I may have stopped the one-line solutions from passing), please let me know if they were beneficial in any way. The main issue with this kata still stands with the random nature of the solution so it seems I will probably have to take this kata down if this isn't solved.

Thank you so much for the feedback, this has been very informative and I hope to do better next time :)

I see what you mean, this program is very restricted and I will work on making it more open to different approaches (or take it down and try something else).
Thank you for the feedback.

Thanks for the constructive feedback, I really appreciate it. I realize that may not be an easy kata to make (especially as a first), but I wanted to challenge myself. I'll see what I can do to improve the tests and the descriptions, hopefully this can come out of beta after much community review.

Yes, the number of generations required to meet the target string does vary (within a fairly consistent range).
This is my first Kata and I knew that this would be very difficult to test and I came up with a generous range of values for each test based off of values from my own solution. I am still contemplating new ways to test this exercise and would be open to suggestions on improving this.

I'm sorry for all of the inconsistencies, this is my first Kata and I should have payed more attention to them. Thank you for your comments and suggestions. I hope that (with the help of this community) I can manage to refine this Kata.

Yes I should add an exception like: "unless the character is locked".

Again, I should clarify that in the description as having the most correct characters out of all the other strings in its generation.

Yes, I'm sorry this is my first try at making a Kata, I should clarify that the input string may change to verify that the program is correct.