My assumtion to this task:

- input a list w/ numbers as text

- sorting the text_numbers as shown

My solution passed the TEST ... and is failing to ATTEMPT

By looking to the hidden test_cases I'm becoming confused:

INPUT_ = ['pxw', 'vhjgt', 'vhjgt', 'pxw', 'pxw', 'pxw', 'pxw']
OUTPUT = ['pxw', 'vhjgt', 'pxw', 'vhjgt', 'pxw', 'pxw', 'pxw'] # expected

INPUT_ = ['ytw', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'jnv', 'jnv', 'ytw', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'utfh', 'utfh', 'ytw']
OUTPUT = ['ytw', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'ytw', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'ytw', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'jnv', 'utfh', 'jnv', 'utfh'] # expected

Are the random test_cases wrong?

Was I misled by the given examples?

Was I rated with unknown expectations?

.... or do I miss anything ???

Doing the ATTEMPT -> I run in the issue:

-> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'htgnj '

for sure: 'htgnj ' can not be returned as Integer

def distribute_evenly(lst):
print(lst)
return ['one']

Just avoid list and repeated calc of the squares. Both is taking a lot of time. My results in sec:

n = 1.000: 0.0002543900000091 sec
n = 10.000: 0.0019760499999847 sec
n = 100.000: 0.0156731199999967 sec
n = 1.000.000: 0.1389633400000093 sec
n = 10.000.000: 1.4097446399999853 sec