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Quicksort - 2038 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #185 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 2
EDN reformat - 1175 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #147 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #42 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove line numbers - 747 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #83 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 570 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #139 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easier Align - 419 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 320
  • Position: #78 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #62 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 7
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 743 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: 50
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #104 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 84
  • Position: #286 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #162 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 5
Matthew Finlayson
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First year PhD at @nlp_usc | Former predoc at @allen_ai on @ai2_aristo | Harvard 2021 CS & Linguistics

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