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Played Challenges

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: 14
  • Position: #85 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 9
Visual block training - 1116 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #43 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 10
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1681 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #198 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 4
Transpose a python matrix - 901 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #52 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 15
Enumerate Bullets - 337 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #29 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #138 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 11
ssh config skills - 278 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #36 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #529 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #762 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1782 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #170 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #986 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #125 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1930 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #144 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 6
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #366 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #53 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interleave lines - 208 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #34 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 5
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