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Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #273 / 569
  • Number of attempts: 5
For all cases. - 141 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #42 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #64 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #7 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #61 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
ascii-art diamond - 35 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #9 / 15
  • Number of attempts: 4
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #25 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #49 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 4
ASCII Art - 82 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #37 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #296 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign numbers to fields - 105 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #49 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #43 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 2
Square numbers - 99 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #17 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #27 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 2
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