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Played Challenges

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 39 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: #13 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 2
Word completion - 116 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #14 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix timezone format - 183 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 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 105 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: #10 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove adjacent duplicates - 362 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #62 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to single level - 1092 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: #88 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
  • Position: #82 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 2
Populate 3D bone names list - 589 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #121 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 43
  • Position: #165 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 538 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #224 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2504 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #459 / 547
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #315 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Markdown Blog Editing - 197 entries

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

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entered into 12 challenges

contributed 1 challenges