See my comment above for user noqwA (I hope moderator will not find it somehow inappropriate). Are there some tips.

Generally do NOT! do list of n elements - n times :D. Technically you not need to iterate more time than the "rest" of those numbers what you have.

So n = 7. First you iterate 7 times, secondly 6 times, ... because one number is each iteration removed.

My code also timed out…… So sad

so im very annoyed my code passes all 38 tests, and times out on the very last one: josephusSurvivor(4687, 4892)
man this is unfair :D no clue how to optimize rip

ye i have no clue what to do here lol
also hate that i cant "give up" and be able to see solutions to learn

what if input of N is odd number? it wont have a direct opposite

i got this error:

Expected objects to be the same.
Passed in:
(table) {
[1] = 88
[2] = 12
[3] = 225 }
Expected:
(nil)

can someone explain? i thought instructions said they only pass tables with strings, not numbers