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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 646 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #44 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 5
Move to corresponding lines - 305 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #45 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rearrange array to single level - 1657 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #102 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rearrange array to one line - 788 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #34 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paste a column after a column - 2642 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #129 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 5
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 756 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #109 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 5
HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 92
  • Position: #318 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #902 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 3
Henry Sloan
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Software engineer in cloud infrastructure and virtualization. Rust and C++ enjoyer. Classical music and Jazz lover, pianist, guitarist and violinist.

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