best practice? you can't hardly write less readable code. i'm actually a fan of short and clever code but this is just overly hacked. sorry, just may opinion.

what a---well, not smart---solution...

Hi, when I run the sample tests (+ several manually added ones) I get all tests passed. Still, whenever I say "attempt" I do get

Server Execution Error:

exec_failure

Request Error:
Request failed with status code 500

This error was caused due to an issue processing the web request, not because of an issue executing your code. You can retry the request.

Any idea of how to get the reason for this? Could this be a timeout issue?

if you would calculate tSpent in seconds you wouldn't need the terrible workaround.

So many solutions iterate over the whole array. Using .every may save you thousands of iterations.

I chose .some to have an early exit. I find here many solutions using .filter twice over the whole array which seems to be overly expensive