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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #188 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1778 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 4
Interweave two blocks of text - 692 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: #168 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1009 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #85 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #227 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 343 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #76 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #165 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove all lines in first part - 226 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: #20 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #269 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 829 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: #203 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1559 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #799 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #231 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 4
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #20 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #144 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #686 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #380 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1688 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: #277 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 5
Groups magic - 173 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: #63 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 759 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: #250 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #128 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #240 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1109 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #258 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #395 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2200 / 3907
  • 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

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