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+# AoC-2022
+advent of code 2022
+
+My second year doing Advent of Code.  This year seems smoother but still I had to poke around on the internet when I was just not getting anywhere.
+Here are my takeaways.
+1.  Sometimes, I just needed a walkthrough on youtube to confirm what exactly the question is looking for.
+2.  There are times when my solution works only for the test case and not on the main puzzle.  In these situations, I use published solutions to generate
+some additional test cases for my code to debug.
+3.  Then there are the ones that I had no idea how to solve and got inspiration from the internet on what the general approach is but I never copied code.
+4.  Yes it takes me 10+ hours of coding on the upper level puzzles.
+5.  As always, I am humbled by the experience.  
+6.  Oh, I use vanilla JS on Replit.
+
+Current State: 45 / 49 points