Your solution has a high time complexity. If you don't know what that is, now would be a good time to find out, since you're 4kyu.

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My comment was related with the new comment above... I've was timed out and I could'nt achieve the challenge.

Hi. Thanks very much for your response.

Yep, clearly I'm timing out on the long strings. I guess I need to keep working on optimizing my code then!

Cheers :)

(for JS): There's 10 fixed tests, 50 short string tests, and 10 long string tests (70 total), so you're probably timing out at long strings =/

For reference, average solution takes about 9-10s.

Hi guys.

How many tests are there? I am getting '60 passed, 0 failed, Exit code 1' (in 30ms), which relates to the 12000ms timeout. But are all the tests not completed already?

I'm not sure what is timing out.

Thanks!