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I'm sure you'll be okay, but don't worry too much. If you couldn't solve the question in front of the interviewer under pressure and with their expectation that you'll be able to immediately code out the solution without thinking for a minute, then that doesn't mean you're not a good programmer.

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It's not that I don't know I'm a good programmer it's why is a coding challenge more important than actual experience?

There are a lot of people who have actual experience, who can't code.

From the interviewer's perspective, how do I know that the code you present as experience is actually yours and not copied and pasted from elsewhere

At least in my case it's trivial to prove it's my code. (Or possibly I'm _really_ good at photoshopping videos of myself and have also spent a ton of time coming up with elaborate answers to every potential question covering tens of thousands of lines of open source code.) But for any sufficiently large project it's not that hard to figure out if the person actually wrote it just by asking a few questions.

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