Played Challenges
Quicksort - 1562 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: #152 / 345
- Number of attempts: 2
EDN reformat - 1055 entries
The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #131 / 147
- Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 459 entries
Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #35 / 122
- Number of attempts: 6
Remove line numbers - 551 entries
From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #59 / 148
- Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 488 entries
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #139 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
Easier Align - 350 entries
Align the columns of a markdown table
- Best score: 51
- Best player score: 320
- Position: #73 / 91
- Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2262 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 / 491
- Number of attempts: 7
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 644 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: #95 / 167
- Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1510 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 84
- Position: #270 / 397
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat symbols in list - 1472 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #151 / 324
- Number of attempts: 5
Matthew Finlayson
Twitter: @mattf1n
First year PhD at @nlp_usc | Former predoc at @allen_ai on @ai2_aristo | Harvard 2021 CS & Linguistics