Hi,
the “Queen Attack” exercise seems mislabeled as hard. It involves only basic coordinate checks, simple attack logic, and board formatting. Compared to other exercises, it feels more like easy or medium.
Thanks!
On which track? 59 tracks implement this exercise.
I have done it only in JS, I dont know how is it in other tracks.
Difficulty levels are notoriously subjective and hard to compare between tracks. Exercises could be assigned a difficulty for a variety of factors. There’s no objective criteria.
That said, Queen Attack is regularly marked as an easy or medium exercise so that seems a bit odd. This isn’t in the JS sub forum so the maintainers may not have been pinged.
@Cool-Katt @SleeplessByte
Could have been a mistake…we can probably git blame the file and find out who made it hard and perhaps find out why.
Either way, if there is some consensus that it should be downgraded, I am okay with that.
How do you feel about the difficulty of this exercise @Cool-Katt ?
I did some digging earlier, and it looks like the difficulty was set in Set core, non-core exercises and unlocking ones by rchavarria · Pull Request #330 · exercism/javascript · GitHub. I don’t see an explanation though.
Medium at worst I would say, so I’m okay to downgrade it.
Great.
Do you wanna do it? Does the OP want to do it?
If OP wants to do it, it’s fine by me and feel free to ping for a review.
Otherwise, I’ll deal with it when I get to a computer (currently touching grass outside)
Yes, I agree, this exercise really shouldn’t be labeled as hard.
Would you like to submit a PR on the Github repo to change the rating?
I dont have Github 
No worries. It’s free to set up an account but one of the maintainers can make the change! We sometimes give people “dibs” on making the change themselves if they want.
Merged! 
thanks
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I can see that it is medium difficulty, thank you guys👏
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