diff --git a/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/common_prefix/common_prefix.py b/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/common_prefix/common_prefix.py
index f4839e7..cc9a405 100644
--- a/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/common_prefix/common_prefix.py
+++ b/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/common_prefix/common_prefix.py
@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ def find_longest_common_prefix(strings: List[str]):
 
     In the event that an empty list, a list containing one string, or a list of strings with no common prefixes is passed, the empty string will be returned.
     """
+    if len(strings) < 2:
+        return ""
+    # sort the strings,this brings strings that share the longest prefixes next to each other.
+    sorted_strings = sorted(strings)
     longest = ""
-    for string_index, string in enumerate(strings):
-        for other_string in strings[string_index+1:]:
-            common = find_common_prefix(string, other_string)
-            if len(common) > len(longest):
-                longest = common
+    for i in range(len(sorted_strings) - 1):
+        common = find_common_prefix(sorted_strings[i], sorted_strings[i + 1])
+        if len(common) > len(longest):
+            longest = common
     return longest
 
 
diff --git a/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/count_letters/count_letters.py b/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/count_letters/count_letters.py
index 62c3ec0..919b261 100644
--- a/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/count_letters/count_letters.py
+++ b/Sprint-2/improve_with_precomputing/count_letters/count_letters.py
@@ -2,13 +2,21 @@ def count_letters(s: str) -> int:
     """
     count_letters returns the number of letters which only occur in upper case in the passed string.
     """
-    only_upper = set()
+    # we use two setts that contain unique letters in the string to scan only once
+    uppers = set()
+    lowers = set()
+  
     for letter in s:
-        if is_upper_case(letter):
-            if letter.lower() not in s:
-                only_upper.add(letter)
-    return len(only_upper)
+        if letter.islower():
+            lowers.add(letter)
+        elif letter.isupper():
+            uppers.add(letter)
+ 
+    only_upper_count = 0
+    for upper_letter in uppers:
+        if upper_letter.lower() not in lowers:
+            only_upper_count += 1
+            
+    return only_upper_count
 
 
-def is_upper_case(letter: str) -> bool:
-    return letter == letter.upper()