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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1523 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 70
  • Position: #193 / 404
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #446 / 569
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #454 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #451 / 505
  • Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #261 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extend shell script - 110 entries

Just add some more stuff

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 99
  • Position: #41 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 348 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #82 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 3
ssh config skills - 250 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #56 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 31
  • Position: #5692 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #235 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2305 / 3852
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #710 / 843
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract wireshark capture filter - 203 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #66 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #653 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1000 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #278 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 282 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #193 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 50 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #31 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2490 / 3626
  • Number of attempts: 3
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