I like this. I didn't know about the maximumBy so I had to zip the words with their scores, sort and find the head. Thanks for making me better at haskell :)

gauss' sum > everything else i learned in school

This problem is really making me think. Haven't figured it out yet but I'm getting close I can FEEL it

This is great!, I got it down to one for loop by modifying gauss' sum slighly different. But this is true algebraic problem solving! :)

Yeah I did something similar, regex I used is: std::regex expr("[:;][-~]*[)D]");
Though this matches to faces with multiple noses. Like yours more!
(I wasn't aware of "?" in regex's until I saw this)

c++ 45001 solution bugged

used cout to debug it and my -1 should be corrrect.

so I tried just changing my logic to return 45001 (as it said) just for that test then it told me the expected solution was -1 (as my original logic had)