Agree. I am going through every single 7kyu exercise right now and this one is excessively more difficult than any other I've tried so far. At least 6kyu. Maybe 5, although I wouldn't know because I haven't done any 5s yet...

What do others think? I don't have a strict opinion either way.

I got same error message

My test result was

Test Failed: Expected: {"b":2,"y":1,"o":1}, instead got: {"b":2,"y":1,"o":1}

I find this funny...

This kata should be reranked, the use of negative numbers puts this above simple fundamentals

#Kata text ambiguous, consider instead

Title: Count individual character's occurances in your string

Description:
Count how many times each character(UTF-8) occurs in a given string and return an object literal.

Example: If you have string like this 'aba' then the result should be { 'a': 2, 'b': 1 }

Versus the current text which implies a grand-total of all characters that occur(exist,happen) instead of occur_ances_(event), then an example that countermands the first sentence.

The main idea is to count all the occuring characters(UTF-8) in string. If you have string like this 'aba' then the result should be { 'a': 2, 'b': 1 }

Some occur alternatives to consider: amount,appearance,frequency,number of times,shows up