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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 403 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #54 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 5
Create json from a .env file - 1134 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #91 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reordering properties - 943 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 97
  • Position: #155 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and Tag - 559 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 131
  • Position: #93 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 1
YAML to dotenv - 1097 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #130 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 350 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #117 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate an entry for each month - 305 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #63 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 253 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #36 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Scala Method - 266 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #68 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 267 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #23 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 665 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #39 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 225 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #64 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 3
extract struct tag in go - 119 entries

Can you extract all struct tags in the fewest keystrokes possible?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #6 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 94 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #16 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 2
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 191 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

  • Best score: 57
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #49 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
Word completion - 253 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #27 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix timezone format - 318 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 286 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #19 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove adjacent duplicates - 612 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #95 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to single level - 1590 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #124 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rearrange array to one line - 737 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #114 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 2
months to html list items - 1103 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #260 / 299
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #134 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove line numbers - 747 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: 43
  • Position: #174 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 572 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #224 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2627 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #482 / 569
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #317 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Markdown Blog Editing - 416 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

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