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LeetCode 1921, Medium. Topics: Array, Greedy, Sorting. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 34 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

You are playing a video game where you are defending your city from a group of n monsters. You are given a 0-indexed integer array dist of size n, where dist[i] is the initial distance in kilometers of the ith monster from the city. The monsters walk toward the city at a constant speed. The speed of each monster is given to you in an integer array speed of size n, where speed[i] is the speed of the ith monster in kilometers per minute. You have a weapon that, once fully charged, can eliminate a single monster. However, the weapon takes one minute to charge. The weapon is fully charged at the very start. You lose when any monster reaches your city. If a monster reaches the city at the exact moment the weapon is fully charged, it counts as a loss, and the game ends before you can use your weapon. Return the maximum number of monsters that you can eliminate before you lose, or n if you can eliminate all the monsters before they reach the city.

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Constraints

  • n == dist.length == speed.length
  • 1 <= n <= 10^5
  • 1 <= dist[i], speed[i] <= 10^5

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

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Last modified on September 7, 2026