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Played Challenges

Interweave two blocks of text - 693 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #73 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1057 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #314 / 402
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 277 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #62 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
formatted text to markdown - 193 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

  • Best score: 70
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #19 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line Zipper - 481 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #107 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 1
Complete the hex array data - 215 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #15 / 76
  • 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: 22
  • Position: #120 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 192 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #13 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 728 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #75 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 23
  • Position: #58 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 421 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #58 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 905 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #96 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 348 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #50 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1970 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #475 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 1
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 117
  • Position: #63 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 909 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #160 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2105 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #403 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 330 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 121
  • Position: #44 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 875 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #197 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #201 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1419 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #334 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #160 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #271 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #307 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #904 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1396 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
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