Problem Names Solution Writeups Code
Contains Duplicate

Create set and check if current character already exists in the set.

Valid Anagram Create character reference array (size of 26), count the frequency of the character and ensure both string has same character frequency.
Two Sum

Create map, record index of each value, and try to find (target - current_value) in the map, if found return the solution.

Group Anagrams

Create a map that maps sorted string in the array to a vector of string. Sorted string as the key will ensure group correctness

Top K Frequent Elements

Create a map to count frequency, by knowing the maximum frequency, create another vector of vector, which will store the numbers according to the frequency

Product of Array Except Self

First find the product of all numbers in the array, and count the number of zero in the array, if zero_count > 1 then the ans will be all zeros, else if zero_count == 1, calculate the max_product without multiplying 0, and then for position of number 0, return max_product value, the rest will be 0.

Valid Sudoku

Check if each row and col contains duplicates, for square checking, loop for each row, and check for each column, and separates square 1, 2 and 3.

Longest Consecutive Sequence

Change vector to set, find how many possible sequence in the vector (by checking if n - 1 exists given n), if n is the start of the sequence, continuously check if n+1 exists. Record the longest length.