thanks! i'll go try some 7 kyu problems.

"you just have to do some maths to figure out what that value is."

lol you are literally the most annoying person.

obviously when i wrote this 7 months ago i was trying to figure out why you couldn't just move the decrement to after without changing the 0 to a 1. thanks for the pointer though bruh, real helpful,

Nah. This is the "clever" solution that still uses two iterators and concat.

This is at least a 6 kyu problem. You should try some 7 kyu problems. Honesetly, 5 kyu is fine given the difficulty of actual 6/7 kyu problems.

Or just > 1.

Putting increments or decrements before or after don't really matter in these instances since you are comparing to a fixed value. You just have to do some maths to figure out what that value is.

I think we're all missing the bigger point here, which is that this should have been a 7 kyu problem.

how does this work!?!