Time Limit Exceeded error

[deanhystad]

One other thing. This is not important for this challenge because your solution will not have loops inside loops, but there is a better way to do the looping you were doing in your OP.

class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height):
        result = 0
        for i in range(len(height)-1):
            for j in range(i+1, len(height)):
                result = max(result, min(height[i], height[j]) * (j - i))
        return result            

This shaves about 10 seconds off your code. This makes sense because the iterations are cut in half.