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Played Challenges

Remove line numbers - 82 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: 12
  • Position: #7 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 17
  • Position: #118 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1210 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #127 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1048 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #250 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2125 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #282 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 8
Python dataclasses - 828 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #185 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 4
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 290 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #159 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1208 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #161 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shebangs for all - 1846 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #475 / 486
  • Number of attempts: 1
Daniel Apt
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Dutchman in London who likes to run, read and bake bread. Software Development Manager at @Amazon. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

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