Oh, you're right! Apologies

Faster, less memory solution: https://www.codewars.com/kata/5b1b27c8f60e99a467000041/solutions

uses one loop, no objects.

yeah, that's a good point.
I've started to comment my code and even leave in console.logs.
The reason I left them out was to get the code as succinct as possible, but that's just for pride.

way too complicated for the top answer to this tricky kata! I'm pretty proud of mine.

Oh right, my bad... even before that block there's this:

Your task is to return the first longest string consisting of k consecutive strings taken in the array.

Should I delete this thread?

I wrote a solution, and it passed the initial tests, but failed on some of the attempts. I wasn''t about to look at some of the problematic parameters because they're insanely long, but fortunately I figured out why: Each of the arrays may have several "longest" strings. The tests only want the first potential answer.

My third sample test is failing too and I'm not sure why.

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No because as it says in the kata description:

cycle(22) = -1 since 1/22 ~ 0.0 45 45 45 45 ...

that first zero means it doesn't qualify.