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Played Challenges

Transpose a python matrix - 907 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #27 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 16
Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #487 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: 20
  • Position: #120 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #1883 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 18
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #249 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #978 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 23
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #184 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #368 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3630 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
  • Position: #22 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 10
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #506 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 16
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #940 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 13
Shift down - 238 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #35 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 11
vim1001 - 331 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #47 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #394 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #127 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 6
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #40 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #119 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13644 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1833 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 4
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