diff --git a/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.js b/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.js
index 95b6ebb7d..014c6f14c 100644
--- a/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.js
+++ b/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.js
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 function countChar(stringOfCharacters, findCharacter) {
-  return 5
+  let count = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < stringOfCharacters.length; i++) {
+    if (stringOfCharacters[i] === findCharacter) {
+      count++;
+    }
+  }
+  return count;   
 }
 
 module.exports = countChar;
diff --git a/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.test.js b/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.test.js
index 42baf4b4b..f05c1baa8 100644
--- a/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.test.js
+++ b/Sprint-3/2-practice-tdd/count.test.js
@@ -22,3 +22,10 @@ test("should count multiple occurrences of a character", () => {
 // And a character char that does not exist within the case-sensitive str,
 // When the function is called with these inputs,
 // Then it should return 0, indicating that no occurrences of the char were found in the case-sensitive str.
+
+test("should return 0 when character does not exist in string", () => {
+  const str = "hello world";
+  const char = "a";
+  const count = countChar(str, char);
+  expect(count).toEqual(0);
+});