Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2068 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 9
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #130 / 254
- Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #16 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #605 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 20
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #424 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 10
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1064 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1344 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 7
Two become one - 710 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #186 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #269 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #72 / 101
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2937 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #428 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #826 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #3807 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #2994 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #865 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 4
David Hume
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