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Played Challenges

Move to corresponding lines - 334 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #68 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to one line - 897 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #160 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy punctuation - 755 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: #116 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 2
Column wise pasting - 273 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #24 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 8
Deleting text - 353 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #77 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 2
Format a long line - 129 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #12 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 5
Morse - 181 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #30 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1529 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #143 / 320
  • Number of attempts: 5
months to html list items - 1155 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #160 / 312
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 24
  • Position: #267 / 472
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove line numbers - 786 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #75 / 209
  • 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: #241 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fizzbuzz - 614 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #73 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 2
Many duplicates - 1489 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #309 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 5
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 661 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: #105 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1916 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #368 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1510 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #309 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1057 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: #141 / 402
  • Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #775 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2057 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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