Skip to main content
impol.dev

Maximum Walls Destroyed by Robots

Hard

There is an endless straight line populated with some robots and walls. You receive integer arrays robots , distance , and walls :

  • robots[i] is the position of the i th robot.

  • distance[i] is the maximum distance the i th robot's bullet can travel.

  • walls[j] is the position of the j th wall.

Every robot has one bullet that can either fire to the left or the right at most distance[i] meters.

A bullet destroys every wall in its path that lies within its range. Robots are fixed obstacles: if a bullet hits another robot before reaching a wall, it immediately stops at that robot and cannot continue.

Produce the maximum count of unique walls that can be destroyed by the robots.

Notes:

  • A wall and a robot may share the same position; the wall can be destroyed by the robot at that position.

  • Robots are not destroyed by bullets.

Example 1

Input: robots = [4], distance = [3], walls = [1,10]

Output: 1

Explanation: For this case,

  • robots[0] = 4 fires left with distance[0] = 3 , covering [1, 4] and destroys walls[0] = 1 .

  • Thus, the answer is 1.

Example 2

Input: robots = [10,2], distance = [5,1], walls = [5,2,7]

Output: 3

Explanation: For this case,

  • robots[0] = 10 fires left with distance[0] = 5 , covering [5, 10] and destroys walls[0] = 5 and walls[2] = 7 .

  • robots[1] = 2 fires left with distance[1] = 1 , covering [1, 2] and destroys walls[1] = 2 .

  • Thus, the answer is 3.

Example 3

Input: robots = [1,2], distance = [100,1], walls = [10]

Output: 0

Explanation: For this case, in this example, only robots[0] can reach the wall, but its shot to the right is blocked by robots[1] ; thus the answer is 0.

Constraints

  • 1 <= robots.length == distance.length <= 10^5
  • 1 <= walls.length <= 10^5
  • 1 <= robots[i], walls[j] <= 10^9
  • 1 <= distance[i] <= 10^5
  • All values in robots are unique.
  • All values in walls are unique.

Did this problem appear in one of your interviews?

Responses stay private.

Acceptance rate: 0%

© 2026 impol.dev. All rights reserved.PrivacyTerms