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Populate 3D bone names list - 656 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #70 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 5
Find fix point of cos - 1485 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #360 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #522 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1656 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #335 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1884 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #537 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #910 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2485 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: 40
  • Position: #456 / 495
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #327 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #505 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #230 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: 25
  • Position: #3425 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1504 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #679 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #2988 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1707 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #4094 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3947 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 1
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