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Remove line numbers - 736 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: 23
  • Position: #137 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1408 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: #81 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #27 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 9
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #44 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #23 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 5
Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #163 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 6
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 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: 58
  • Position: #71 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 2
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