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A few years ago I solved 200 LeetCode problems and still froze on Mediums I hadn't seen. The breakthrough wasn't another hundred problems. It was a different loop. A problem asks for the longest substring with at most K distinct characters. You've solved sliding window before. Maximum sum subarray of size K, done. Longest substring without repeating characters, done. This third one stalls you. Twe