Pattern5 visualizers
Sliding Window Pattern Visualizers
The Sliding Window pattern is a recurring algorithmic shape that appears across coding interviews and competitive problems. Use it when the problem geometry matches its trigger conditions — recognizing the pattern collapses what looks like a hard problem into a familiar template. These visualizers trace Sliding Window step-by-step on classics such as Longest Repeating Character Replacement, Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters, Minimum Window Substring, so you can internalize the moves before you ever need them under pressure.
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Longest Repeating Character Replacement
Find the longest substring where you can replace at most k characters to make all characters the same.
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Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
Find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters using a sliding window with a hash set.
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Minimum Window Substring
Find the smallest substring containing all characters of a target string by expanding and contracting a sliding window.
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Permutation in String
Check if any permutation of s1 exists as a substring of s2 by sliding a fixed-size window and comparing character frequency maps.
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Sliding Window Maximum
Find the maximum element in each sliding window of size k using a monotonic decreasing deque for O(n) efficiency.
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