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Played Challenges

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #42 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 30
  • Position: #5323 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 930 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #11 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #35 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #311 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #23 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18797 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2269 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #159 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 4
Aliases for cd - 881 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #6 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 16
Quote modules (ver.2) - 241 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #4 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 7
Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 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: #60 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 884 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #192 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #416 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #350 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #103 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #299 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1351 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #210 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #59 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #532 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2240 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #239 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #346 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 849 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #195 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #173 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2430 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #25 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #974 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1488 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1806 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 3
ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 109
  • Position: #52 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
Oleg
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