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Played Challenges

Sort and Tag - 737 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 114
  • Position: #105 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change LaTex itemizations formats - 137 entries

Inspired by the way my professor formats their LaTeX assignments.

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #18 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1527 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #99 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 3
months to html list items - 1151 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #65 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 5
Find fix point of cos - 1485 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: #208 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #168 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 4
Staircase - 178 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #34 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4602 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #480 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #392 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #223 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #184 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #865 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1106 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 553 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #76 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 420 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #97 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 4
unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #68 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 309 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #202 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #188 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #159 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment, increment, increment.... - 709 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #68 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 845 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #97 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #24 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
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