Played Challenges
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #188 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1763 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 4
Interweave two blocks of text - 641 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #164 / 212
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #990 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #85 / 421
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #222 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 302 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #73 / 87
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #159 / 442
- Number of attempts: 3
remove all lines in first part - 197 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #18 / 66
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the XML - 1000 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #264 / 287
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 794 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: 17
- Position: #197 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1535 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #788 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1006 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #225 / 352
- Number of attempts: 4
120 Degrees - 469 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #144 / 436
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #686 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #370 / 695
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1598 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: 11
- Position: #268 / 514
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 14
- Position: #193 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 5
Groups magic - 157 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #61 / 92
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #241 / 272
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #125 / 147
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 14
- Position: #226 / 502
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #247 / 340
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #342 / 758
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2050 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 4
Benny Wong
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building time machine as cofounder o' @timehop • fan of @lorwich • helped build @exitstrategynyc • adder of ascii art in git commits