The purpose of the code timing out is to help recognize inefficient code. If you are passing all of the other tests and timing out for some that means that there is a more efficient solution that should be used to solve the problem.

the basic tests are random, so some it may pass sometimes, and fail in others

I think they should either decrease the number of nodes in some tests or increase the time given for testing process

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>it pases the fixed tests with 8k nodes but times out with the random tests

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Each letter of a word scores points according to its position in the alphabet: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.

just implement your own linked list

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