Three Comments on Leetcode | Parity Bits

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2023-03-24 07:00:04

I was recently introduced to wordle (and variants) by some colleagues, and it's pretty fun and slick. I've always been delighted with its user-respecting daily problem cadence. Very happy to see it succeed and I hope the model remains popular.

I spent years working with young and not-so-young kids doing reading remediation work, which led me to develop a fairly systematic and internalized catalog of English phonics. I also spent years twiddling with an entirely custom keyboard map in order to combat RSI, so I've also got a pretty good internal handle on English letter frequency distributions, including 2 and 3 letter combinations. (Thanks to Peter Norvig)

Add a background in CS and math to the above, and my approach to wordle puzzles has converged on something extremely mechanical and not that much fun.

Still, I enjoyed the daily cadence, and was interested to pick up something in its place. So: why not Leetcode? I've given it a go, and am enjoying it so far. I know that Leetcoding as a cultural norm is divisive, but I've always intrinsically enjoyed this class of puzzles.