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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #121 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 3
Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #80 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4468 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #676 / 1095
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2391 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: 38
  • Position: #430 / 471
  • 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: 12
  • Position: #286 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #196 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 4
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #154 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #214 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: 31
  • Position: #155 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 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: 39
  • Position: #7056 / 7415
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #254 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 25
  • Position: #179 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1095 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1473 / 1536
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18712 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #3767 / 3859
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #279 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 222
  • Position: #151 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 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: 13
  • Position: #190 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4799 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #746 / 1892
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #794 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10848 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2316 / 3061
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2031 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #450 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #610 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #440 / 1161
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3807 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #569 / 862
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1459 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #367 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 20
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #511 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #635 / 752
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #655 / 1621
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11444 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1412 / 4193
  • Number of attempts: 7
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #557 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #819 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1875 / 2125
  • Number of attempts: 7
Line under headers - 2037 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #478 / 501
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #145 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #407 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1006 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3910 / 4177
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1100 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3411 / 3680
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1054 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3163 / 3961
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #683 / 777
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1538 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 176
  • Position: #148 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #531 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #396 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12740 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3044 / 3680
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6937 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #1355 / 1699
  • Number of attempts: 1
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