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Played Challenges

Even and Odd - 254 entries

separate the even numbers from the odd numbers

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #3 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 8
Modifying .XCompose - 68 entries

You just wrote some lines in .XCompose, but now you want the compose sequences to be more verbose. Change the compose sequence for each Greek letter to its name.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #6 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 5
hexagram binary tree - 101 entries

generate the binary tree that represents all possible hexagrams found in the book of changes (易经)

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 956 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #49 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 11
Delete the last function argument in python. - 649 entries

Delete the last function argument in this python script.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #119 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flip All Bits - 401 entries

Perform a bitwise NOT operation on each bit, meaning that bits that are 0 become 1, and those that are 1 become 0.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #7 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 6
Find the devices that have no revoked time, and extract out the duration left on their leases. - 212 entries

Extract non-revoked devices and the duration of their leases.

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #7 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 13
Convert list of enums to list of localization terms - 228 entries

While making my game Piloteer, I had a large list of TaskTypes and needed to convert them to an equivalent list of localization terms, to be used when translating the game's text into different languages.

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #8 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 8
From brakets to parens - 1306 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #65 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 10
π - 327 entries

1200 π chars

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #17 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 6
Create json from a .env file - 1716 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #39 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 13
Reordering properties - 1372 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #45 / 298
  • Number of attempts: 11
Sort and Tag - 737 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #24 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 20
Changing date formats - 751 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #1 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 3
YAML to dotenv - 1637 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #71 / 342
  • Number of attempts: 11
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