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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #66 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat symbols in list - 1020 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #137 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Innocent Monster - 131 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 87
  • Position: #22 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #255 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4651 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1502 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2044 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #490 / 737
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #13 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #277 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 760 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #207 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 775 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #172 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #19 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 8
vim1001 - 274 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #15 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 6
Roman numerals - 68 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #7 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #737 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #6 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 4
Suffix sort - 244 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #38 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 434 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #125 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #107 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 1
Winding path - 93 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 82
  • Position: #34 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #111 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 5
Don't know what this is - 1959 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #445 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 853 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #109 / 427
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #99 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2509 / 3647
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3403 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #78 / 686
  • Number of attempts: 18
Letter case trickery - 1582 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: 10
  • Position: #115 / 507
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3196 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tiny column alignment - 41 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 205
  • Position: #18 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #276 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1823 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #28 / 482
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #63 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11896 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2300 / 3481
  • Number of attempts: 3
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