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LeetCode 75, Medium. Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 15 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white, and blue. We will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue, respectively. You must solve this problem without using the library’s sort function.

Examples

Constraints

  • n == nums.length
  • 1 <= n <= 300
  • nums[i] is either 0, 1, or 2.
Follow up: Could you come up with a one-pass algorithm using only constant extra space?

Solution

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

Complexity

Tags

Grind 75, Grind, NeetCode 250, NeetCode All, AlgoMaster 75.
Last modified on August 25, 2026