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Played Challenges

Move to corresponding lines - 182 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #39 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to one line - 521 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #100 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy punctuation - 419 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #67 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Column wise pasting - 133 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #15 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 8
Deleting text - 217 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #53 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 2
Format a long line - 71 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #9 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 5
Morse - 131 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #24 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 836 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #87 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 5
months to html list items - 957 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #138 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quicksort - 1875 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: 24
  • Position: #247 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove line numbers - 694 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #74 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 4
Find fix point of cos - 1339 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: #234 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 45
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #69 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 2
Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #306 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 5
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #101 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1768 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #368 / 548
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1498 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #309 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #134 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3589 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #701 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12680 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2001 / 3665
  • Number of attempts: 2
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