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Paste a column after a column - 1074 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #64 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 374 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #18 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 5
HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #227 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1020 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #108 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fizzbuzz - 343 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #20 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 7
Substraction (bis) - 383 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #35 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 845 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #191 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1087 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #216 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #117 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #323 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 5
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