Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #88 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #899 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #205 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1336 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #186 / 331
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #99 / 179
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort entries based on date - 363 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #77 / 114
- Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #59 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #65 / 163
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat long lines - 341 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #11 / 130
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #209 / 401
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1001 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #245 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #87 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #78 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #89 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2272 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #831 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 5
Rik Lomas
Twitter: @riklomas
Founder of Lomalogue Ltd. Expect tweets about tech, design, code and maybe, just maybe, some cat videos.