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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1094 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 11
Copy punctuation - 419 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #35 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 7
Inverting Lines - 1881 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #145 / 508
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4462 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #633 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 952 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #241 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 3
Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #18 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #2098 / 7407
  • Number of attempts: 6
Get mail address from outlook format - 647 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #25 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #33 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #321 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 9
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6298 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #81 / 1535
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18710 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1300 / 3857
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10846 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #573 / 3060
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #306 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #10 / 11
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3022 / 4185
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 144 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #75 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2031 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #383 / 500
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15967 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3670 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1078 / 3960
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mats Faugli
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Father of three, programmer @Omegapoint. Passion for GNU/Linux. Principles over hypes, Neovim over VSCode. Love 60s and 70s progrock.

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