There is a special typewriter with lowercase English letters 'a'
to 'z'
arranged in a circle with a pointer. A character can only be typed if the pointer is pointing to that character. The pointer is initially pointing to the character 'a'
.
Each second, you may perform one of the following operations:
- Move the pointer one character counterclockwise or clockwise.
- Type the character the pointer is currently on.
Given a string word
, return the minimum number of seconds to type out the characters in word
.
Example 1:
Input: word = "abc"
Output: 5
Explanation:
The characters are printed as follows:
- Type the character 'a' in 1 second since the pointer is initially on 'a'.
- Move the pointer clockwise to 'b' in 1 second.
- Type the character 'b' in 1 second.
- Move the pointer clockwise to 'c' in 1 second.
- Type the character 'c' in 1 second.
Example 2:
Input: word = "bza"
Output: 7
Explanation:
The characters are printed as follows:
- Move the pointer clockwise to 'b' in 1 second.
- Type the character 'b' in 1 second.
- Move the pointer counterclockwise to 'z' in 2 seconds.
- Type the character 'z' in 1 second.
- Move the pointer clockwise to 'a' in 1 second.
- Type the character 'a' in 1 second.
Example 3:
Input: word = "zjpc"
Output: 34
Explanation:
The characters are printed as follows:
- Move the pointer counterclockwise to 'z' in 1 second.
- Type the character 'z' in 1 second.
- Move the pointer clockwise to 'j' in 10 seconds.
- Type the character 'j' in 1 second.
- Move the pointer clockwise to 'p' in 6 seconds.
- Type the character 'p' in 1 second.
- Move the pointer counterclockwise to 'c' in 13 seconds.
- Type the character 'c' in 1 second.
Constraints:
-
1 <= word.length <= 100
-
word
consists of lowercase English letters.
SOLUTION:
class Solution:
def minTimeToType(self, word: str) -> int:
curr = 'a'
t = 0
for c in word:
d = abs(ord(c) - ord(curr))
t += min(d, 26 - d)
curr = c
return t + len(word)
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