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Played Challenges

Reorganize Pokémon - 875 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #234 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to single level - 1829 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #119 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 6
Deleting text - 345 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #62 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1151 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #263 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quicksort - 2113 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #416 / 472
  • Number of attempts: 1
EDN reformat - 1222 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #159 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #226 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 18
  • Position: #280 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #346 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #327 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1039 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #174 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1884 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #233 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3143 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #796 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #441 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4883 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #794 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2107 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #498 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #816 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1506 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #984 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #987 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1020 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1137 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #436 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1605 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #22 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1460 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #219 / 655
  • Number of attempts: 8
Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #305 / 615
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #9 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 11
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