LeetCode 856, Medium. Topics: String, Stack, Bracket Sequences. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 23 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given a balanced parentheses string s, return the score of the string.
The score of a balanced parentheses string is based on the following rule:
"()" has score 1.
AB has score A + B, where A and B are balanced parentheses strings.
(A) has score 2 * A, where A is a balanced parentheses string.
Examples
Constraints
- 2 <= s.length <= 50
- s consists of only
'(' and ')'.
- s is a balanced parentheses string.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
Last modified on September 7, 2026