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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 1350 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #141 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2681 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #324 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2485 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #173 / 495
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #225 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 731 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #177 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #512 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 1
C# data class to F# record - 89 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

  • Best score: 63
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #15 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33990 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3273 / 7510
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 952 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #112 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18900 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2118 / 3903
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #153 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #46 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 206 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #71 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 947 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #215 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #228 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 4
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 42 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #1 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 38 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #13 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 38 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #14 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1557 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #248 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1553 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #370 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 2
Convert Application Output to CSV - 226 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #41 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 128 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #23 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 411 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #158 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 3
For all cases. - 170 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #23 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 105 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #62 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2249 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #405 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 154 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #56 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #68 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #126 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 68 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 3
  • Position: #2 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 867 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #291 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 197 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #69 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
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