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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1611 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #96 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #216 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 2
Innocent Monster - 229 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 87
  • Position: #29 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #324 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1537 / 1909
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2095 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #509 / 766
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #13 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #277 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #218 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 820 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: #179 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #19 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 8
vim1001 - 315 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: #18 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 6
Roman numerals - 94 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #7 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #754 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #6 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 4
Suffix sort - 287 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: #42 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #130 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #112 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Winding path - 143 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: #37 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1184 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #113 / 305
  • Number of attempts: 5
Don't know what this is - 2040 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: #457 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #109 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #103 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2559 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #78 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 18
Letter case trickery - 1663 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: #118 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3240 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tiny column alignment - 73 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 205
  • Position: #23 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #297 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2090 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 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reverse characters in a line - 819 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #72 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2538 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 3
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