It was a sweet little contest <3, I enjoyed the second problem (PS — I am a noob)

Bro, you passed the string as a value which creates a copy of the string each time you call the recursive function that's why you are getting a TLE as verdict. While in the other solution the string is passed as a reference thus the verdict is AC. Whenever you are passing a variable down a function for reading purposes only, I prefer passing it as reference.

PS: I had the same situation as yours.

Problem B was pretty beautiful to my taste, even though I couldn't solve it,overall the questions were good.

Really a great initiative <3, I hope it stays free.

I agree, it seems pretty logical to sort the comments/threads using the problem tags, we can volunteer to make such changes if that's feasible.

So true, XD

I did the same mistake, misread the statement

Relevant Meme for Problem D is too close to heart <3