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Played Challenges

Sort the cardinal numbers - 330 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #86 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 481 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #200 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #93 / 108
  • 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: 56
  • Position: #66 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #168 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1970 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #375 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 408 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #78 / 222
  • 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: 20
  • Position: #424 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1094 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #196 / 682
  • 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: 125
  • Position: #58 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #81 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 875 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #196 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #207 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 611 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #200 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 2
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