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Recover a BST with Two Swapped Nodes

By FrontendAtlas Team · Updated Jan 30, 2026

Two nodes in a Binary Search Tree were swapped by mistake. Implement recoverBST(root) to fix the tree in-place (swap the two values back) and return the original root. This is a classic medium algorithm problem (often seen in interviews). A common follow-up is: how would…

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Recover a BST with Two Swapped Nodes: Two nodes in a Binary Search Tree were swapped by mistake. Implement recoverBST(root) to fix the tree in-place (swap the two values back) and…. Expect tree and bst decisions under intermediate level constraints.

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