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Find fix point of cos - 641 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #30 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 264 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #25 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 4
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 335 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #156 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 1663 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #49 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 7
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 243 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #17 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 7
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 483 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: 53
  • Position: #23 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 9
HS exam question - 1272 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #29 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 16
Reformat symbols in list - 1198 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #43 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fizzbuzz - 422 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #15 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 10
Substraction (bis) - 448 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #14 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 7
Changing around text with citations - 236 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #26 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 3
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