Unfair questions in Code Challenge Matches

Question

In the Code Challenges, very often I get questions about material that I’ve never even heard about. How am I supposed to get the question right if I have no idea what it is doing?
Is it supposed to be this way in order to encourage me to learn more?

Answer 1

Many code challenges questions are user submitted questions. For that matter, challenges does not care much for players' level, nor does it consider whether a subject had been covered.

As the Challenges system doesn't seem to be connected with the Learn system, there's little to none a chance for the Challenges system to know how far a learner has progressed. The questions are most likely just from a random selection, with ordering shuffled some way.

Don't worry, it's just a game, it doesn't judge you or anything. In the end you will see, it's merely a game of memorization - of the answers 8-)