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Played Challenges

Put a cross in the square - 175 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #15 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4257 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #48 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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: 22
  • Position: #1298 / 7308
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #340 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #548 / 3815
  • Number of attempts: 12
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #2 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 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: 9
  • Position: #38 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #9 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 5
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #9 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #4 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #97 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #296 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #13 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #103 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1073 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #125 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 527 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #19 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #356 / 2072
  • Number of attempts: 7
Line under headers - 1941 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #105 / 479
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #720 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2266 / 3647
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #862 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11897 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #523 / 3482
  • Number of attempts: 3
Andrzej Wąsowski
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An insolent and derogatory context-free professor conjugates a well-typed glass of higher-order prilimubary students. https://t.co/Y6cpJhk9g0 @ITUkbh in Copenhagen,

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