JavaScript challenges don’t always reflect ones skill on the language

Question

Am i the only one to have noticed a couple of times that challenges are not about someones knowledge of the language more than his ability to make quick calculations in a relatively short amount of time?

Answer 1

Well sir I think they make these challenges not to test someones absorption capacity( even though it's important)
The main objective is what Honfu said

Answer 2

Being able to understand a piece of code quickly even if its messy is also part of the skill.

Answer 3

//rather then that coding challenges includes both your ability(creativity) and your knowledge about coding. As for programmers it's good to have a sharp brain to do some interesting things

Answer 4

I totally agree that these challenges does not in anyway examine the capacity of one's knowledge of a language. It is just for those who are really fast in calculation.

Answer 5

Yes I also feel like unless I use other resources and look at examples and write some code myself to solve problems, I am not really going to be good in Javascript by doing challenges alone.

Answer 6

HonFu i have no problem with messy code, thats part of the skill, my point was about arithmetic calculations.

Answer 7

Hm, okay, yeah, I also encountered a few riddles (in all languages) that were only about calculating a few numbers. Sort of pointless.

Answer 8

https://code.sololearn.com/WzP5NVW98VbH/?ref=app
https://code.sololearn.com/Wb7LSs0jy3rC/?ref=app

Answer 9

Same is for HTML, JavaScript challenges are just arithmetic problems whereas HTML is just recalling memorised answers.