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Played Challenges

Transpose a python matrix - 684 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #22 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 16
Inverting Lines - 1565 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #394 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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 / 7309
  • Number of attempts: 18
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: #249 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18498 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #954 / 3816
  • Number of attempts: 23
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #184 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7757 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #368 / 1848
  • Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3551 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 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 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 10
Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #483 / 1245
  • Number of attempts: 16
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #940 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 13
Shift down - 191 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #31 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 11
vim1001 - 274 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: #43 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #388 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #121 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 6
NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #40 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #103 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 11906 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1740 / 3484
  • Number of attempts: 4
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