diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75e854d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+node_modules/
+/test-results/
+/playwright-report/
+/playwright/.cache/
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 6906f7b..ab566bd 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// EDIT THIS FILE TO COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT QUESTION 1
+// Solution by Ethan Ruszanowski
 const { chromium } = require("playwright");
 
 async function sortHackerNewsArticles() {
@@ -9,6 +9,34 @@ async function sortHackerNewsArticles() {
 
   // go to Hacker News
   await page.goto("https://news.ycombinator.com/newest");
+
+  // instantiate array for all date objects
+  let datestamps = []
+
+  // loop through process per page
+  for (var pageview = 0; pageview <= 3; pageview++) {
+    // locate each article's age span
+    let datespans = await page.locator('.age').all();
+
+    // iterate through date spans to get timestamps
+    for (row = 0; row < datespans.length; row++) {
+      // turn timestamp strings into date objects and push to array
+      datestamps.push(new Date(await datespans[row].getAttribute('title')));
+    }
+
+    // click the next button as needed
+    await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'More', exact: true }).click();
+  }
+
+  // drop extra articles from last page grab
+  datestamps = datestamps.slice(0, 100);
+
+  // report results
+  if (datestamps === datestamps.sort()) {
+    console.log("Success! The first 100 articles are correctly sorted by posting time.")
+  } else {
+    console.log("Failure… The first 100 articles are not correctly sorted by posting time.")
+  }
 }
 
 (async () => {