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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 576 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #287 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #167 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 8
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 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: 95
  • Position: #174 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 84
  • Position: #290 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #222 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #230 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #486 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 29
  • Position: #5017 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3139 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 3
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