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Played Challenges

Recursively Palindrome - 290 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #17 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1377 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 477 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #4 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #82 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 238 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #35 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat long lines - 388 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #129 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #166 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #184 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 7
Increment, increment, increment.... - 709 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #201 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 116 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #57 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #93 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 3
Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #61 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mathias Bynens 
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Front-end web developer. I like bytes.

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