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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 671 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #123 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
Move to corresponding lines - 307 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #51 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 5
Rearrange array to single level - 1737 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #156 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 8
Rearrange array to one line - 807 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #77 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy punctuation - 684 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #76 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mirror image - 125 entries

Add the second eye

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #22 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #111 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 6
months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #158 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 449 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 154
  • Position: #65 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 2
Populate 3D bone names list - 652 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #115 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 8
Find fix point of cos - 1468 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: #246 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 5
Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #429 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #562 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #361 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 10
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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: 44
  • Position: #261 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1187 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 6
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #139 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 405 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #69 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #603 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 2
Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 103
  • Position: #67 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 3
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #107 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 556 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #60 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #305 / 369
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2046 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7513 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #1743 / 1849
  • Number of attempts: 1
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