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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2668 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 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 9
Visual block training - 1118 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #43 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 10
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #199 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 4
Transpose a python matrix - 907 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #52 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 15
Enumerate Bullets - 339 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 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #138 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 11
ssh config skills - 282 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #38 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #529 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #762 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1784 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #170 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #987 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #125 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1935 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #145 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 6
Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #367 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 132 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #53 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interleave lines - 210 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: #35 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 5
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