LC146 longest-substring-without-repeating-character

public static int lengthOfLongestSubstring(String s) {
        // write code here
        int maxSize = 0;
        char[] characters = s.toCharArray();
        List<Character> list1 = new ArrayList<>();
        List<Character> list2 = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < characters.length; i++) {
            if (list1.contains(characters[i])) {
                int pos = list1.indexOf(characters[i]);
                if (list1.size() > maxSize) {
                    maxSize = list1.size();
                }
                list2.clear();
                for (int i1 = pos+1; i1 < list1.size(); i1++) {
                    list2.add(list1.get(i1));
                }
                list1.clear();
                for (int i1 = 0; i1 < list2.size(); i1++) {
                    list1.add(list2.get(i1));
                }

            }
            list1.add(characters[i]);

        }
        return maxSize;

    }