[LeetCode] 876. Middle of the Linked List

Problem

Given a non-empty, singly linked list with head node head, return a middle node of linked list.

If there are two middle nodes, return the second middle node.

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: Node 3 from this list (Serialization: [3,4,5])
The returned node has value 3. (The judge's serialization of this node is [3,4,5]).
Note that we returned a ListNode object ans, such that:
ans.val = 3, ans.next.val = 4, ans.next.next.val = 5, and ans.next.next.next = NULL.
Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Output: Node 4 from this list (Serialization: [4,5,6])
Since the list has two middle nodes with values 3 and 4, we return the second one.

Note:

The number of nodes in the given list will be between 1 and 100.

Solution

SOL.1

class Solution {
    public ListNode middleNode(ListNode head) {
        ListNode fast = head, slow = head;
        
        while (fast != null && fast.next != null) {
            fast = fast.next.next;
            slow = slow.next;
        }
        
        return slow;
    }
}

SOL.2

class Solution {
    public ListNode middleNode(ListNode head) {
        ListNode fast = head, slow = head;
        int n = 1;
        while (fast.next != null) {
            fast = fast.next;
            n++;
        }
        int k = n/2;
        while (k != 0) {
            slow = slow.next;
            k--;
        }
        return slow;
    }
}