open to the harshest of criticisms on my code. thanks

was gonna say the exact same thing. maybe cuz theres a tiny bit of algebra 1 in it? ... 8kyu for sure

was gonna say the exact same thing. maybe cuz theres a tiny bit of algebra 1 in it? ... 8kyu for sure

false

I added "O"s at bottom and right to avoid the edge problem but probably shld just have an && statement in the bottom 2 if statements.

Issues started to pop up, so I approved.

If you mean sample tests, should be fixed. Please reset the trainer, reload the page, and verify.

The C# version of this Kata got the AreEqual arguments mixed:

Assert.AreEqual(Kata.ValidParentheses(str), expected, $"Incorrect answer for str = "{str}"");

"expected" should be the first argument, the result from the method should be the second argument.

thats what i thought but wanted to be sure because the example doesnt cover this case.

This should return false, because it's not well balanced: the first parenthesis closes something what havent been open before.

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Should this return true of false?

love this answer i just wonder how the hell he got there. mine worked just had way too much runtime.

gratz on 1 line