diff --git a/contains-duplicate/mandoolala.py b/contains-duplicate/mandoolala.py
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+"""
+https://leetcode.com/problems/contains-duplicate/
+"""
+from typing import List
+
+class Solution:
+    def containsDuplicate(self, nums: List[int]) -> bool:
+        '''
+        [Complexity]
+        Time: O(n)
+        Space: O(n)
+        '''
+        return (len(nums) != len(set(nums)))
+
+        '''
+        alternative:
+        nums_set = set()
+        for num in nums:
+            if num in nums_set:
+                return True
+            nums_set.add(num)
+        return False
+        '''
diff --git a/house-robber/mandoolala.py b/house-robber/mandoolala.py
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+from typing import List
+
+class Solution:
+    def rob(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
+        '''
+        [Complexity]
+        Time: O(n)
+        Space: O(n)
+        '''
+        cnt = len(nums)
+
+        if cnt == 1:
+            return nums[0]
+        if cnt == 2:
+            return max(nums[0], nums[1])
+
+        dp = [0] * cnt
+        dp[0] = nums[0]
+        dp[1] = max(nums[0], nums[1])
+
+        for i in range(2, cnt):
+            # skip: dp[i-1]
+            # rob: dp[i-2]+nums[i]
+            dp[i] = max(dp[i - 1], dp[i - 2] + nums[i])
+        return max(dp)
diff --git a/longest-consecutive-sequence/mandoolala.py b/longest-consecutive-sequence/mandoolala.py
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+from typing import List
+
+class Solution:
+    def longestConsecutive(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
+        num_set = set(nums)
+        longest = 0
+        for num in num_set:
+            if num - 1 in num_set:
+                continue
+            length = 1
+            while num + length in num_set:
+                length += 1
+            longest = max(length, longest)
+        return longest
diff --git a/top-k-frequent-elements/mandoolala.py b/top-k-frequent-elements/mandoolala.py
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+++ b/top-k-frequent-elements/mandoolala.py
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+from typing import List
+
+
+class Solution:
+    def topKFrequent(self, nums: List[int], k: int) -> List[int]:
+        '''
+        Using (min)heap
+        [Complexity]
+        Time: O(log n)
+        Space: O(n+k)
+        '''
+        from heapq import heappush, heappop
+        counter = {}
+        for num in nums:
+            counter[num] = counter.get(num, 0) + 1
+        heap = []
+        for num, freq in counter.items():
+            heappush(heap, (freq, num))
+            if len(heap) > k:
+                heappop(heap)
+        return [num for _, num in heap]
+        '''
+        Using hash table 
+        [Complexity]
+        Time: O(n log n)
+        Space: O(n)
+        '''
+        '''
+        countDict = {}
+        for num in nums:
+            if num in countDict:
+                countDict[num] += 1
+            else:
+                countDict[num] = 1
+        sortedDictList = sorted(countDict.items(), key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True)
+        freqElements = []
+        for i in range(k):
+            freqElements.append(sortedDictList[i][0])
+        return freqElements
+        '''
diff --git a/two-sum/mandoolala.py b/two-sum/mandoolala.py
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+from typing import List
+
+class Solution:
+    def twoSum(self, nums: List[int], target: int) -> List[int]:
+        # return indices of two numbers such that they add up to target
+        '''
+        [Complexity]
+        Time: O(n)
+        Space: O(1)
+        '''
+        nums_dict = {}
+        for idx, num in enumerate(nums):
+            remaining = target - num
+            if remaining in nums_dict:
+                return [idx, nums_dict[remaining]]
+            nums_dict[num] = idx
+        '''
+        [Complexity]
+        Time: O(n^2)
+        Space: O(1)
+
+        for i in range(0,len(nums)-1):
+            for j in range(i+1, len(nums)):
+                sum = nums[i] + nums[j]
+                if sum == target:
+                    return [i, j]
+        '''