Repeat Evolution
1857. Largest Color Value in a Directed Graph
2 attempts over 778 days. This page compares how the solution size, thinking trace, and stuck markers changed between posts.
Timeline Shape
Bars are normalized inside this problem, so the widest bar is the largest attempt in that metric.
Attempt Gallery
Each card is a daily post, with local deltas from the previous attempt.
Attempt 1 · 09.04.2023
hard1857. Largest Color Value in a Directed Graph
standard
kotlin
use visited set to detect cycles
Attempt 2 · 26.05.2025
hard1857. Largest Color Value in a Directed Graph
compact
kotlin
778 days later
lines -11
chars -285
thoughts +3
Max color freq path
What Changed
Compact generated readout from the first and latest attempts.
-11 lines, -285 chars.
+3 lines between first and latest attempt.
12 lines, 501 chars.
0 stuck attempts, 0 one-liner attempts.