- Difficulty: Easy
- Tags: LeetCode, Easy, Hash Table, String, leetcode-1165, O(n), O(1), 🔒
Problem
There is a special keyboard with all keys in a single row.
Given a string keyboard
of length 26
indicating the layout of the keyboard (indexed from 0
to 25
). Initially, your finger is at index 0
. To type a character, you have to move your finger to the index of the desired character. The time taken to move your finger from index i
to index j
is |i - j|
.
You want to type a string word
. Write a function to calculate how much time it takes to type it with one finger.
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Example 1:
Input: keyboard = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", word = "cba" Output: 4 Explanation: The index moves from 0 to 2 to write 'c' then to 1 to write 'b' then to 0 again to write 'a'. Total time = 2 + 1 + 1 = 4.
Example 2:
Input: keyboard = "pqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmno", word = "leetcode" Output: 73
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Constraints:
keyboard.length == 26
keyboard
contains each English lowercase letter exactly once in some order.1 <= word.length <= 104
word[i]
is an English lowercase letter.