diff --git a/.idea/compiler.xml b/.idea/compiler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bb69ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/compiler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="CompilerConfiguration">
+    <annotationProcessing>
+      <profile name="Maven default annotation processors profile" enabled="true">
+        <sourceOutputDir name="target/generated-sources/annotations" />
+        <sourceTestOutputDir name="target/generated-test-sources/test-annotations" />
+        <outputRelativeToContentRoot value="true" />
+        <module name="PlaylistChallenge" />
+      </profile>
+    </annotationProcessing>
+    <bytecodeTargetLevel>
+      <module name="PlaylistChallenge" target="1.5" />
+    </bytecodeTargetLevel>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
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index 0000000..d30d09e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="MavenProjectsManager">
+    <option name="originalFiles">
+      <list>
+        <option value="$PROJECT_DIR$/pom.xml" />
+      </list>
+    </option>
+  </component>
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_1_8" project-jdk-name="1.8" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK">
+    <output url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/classes" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/modules.xml b/.idea/modules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5103107
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/modules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
+    <modules>
+      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/PlaylistChallenge.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/PlaylistChallenge.iml" />
+    </modules>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35eb1dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/vcs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
+    <mapping directory="" vcs="Git" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/PlaylistChallenge.iml b/PlaylistChallenge.iml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ddf51c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PlaylistChallenge.iml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module org.jetbrains.idea.maven.project.MavenProjectsManager.isMavenModule="true" type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" LANGUAGE_LEVEL="JDK_1_5">
+    <output url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/classes" />
+    <output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/test-classes" />
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/java" isTestSource="false" />
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/test/java" isTestSource="true" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
+    </content>
+    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: junit:junit:4.12" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.3" level="project" />
+  </component>
+</module>
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diff --git a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java
index 180c65c..33f64c9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java
@@ -4,11 +4,30 @@ public class Music {
 
     private String[] playList;
 
+    // constructor
     public Music(String[] playList){
         this.playList = playList;
     }
 
     public Integer selection(Integer startIndex, String selection){
-        return null;
+        int counterA = 0;
+        int counterB = 0;
+
+
+        for(int i = 0; i <= startIndex; i++){
+            counterA++;
+        }
+        for(int j = 0; j <= playList.length; j++){
+            counterB++;
+        }
+        if(counterA > counterB){
+            // return the less skip song options
+            return counterB;
+        }
+        else{
+            return counterA;
+        }
+
+
     }
 }
diff --git a/target/classes/io/zipcoder/Music.class b/target/classes/io/zipcoder/Music.class
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diff --git a/target/test-classes/io/zipcoder/MusicTest.class b/target/test-classes/io/zipcoder/MusicTest.class
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