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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 808 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: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #90 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 5
Create json from a .env file - 1463 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #113 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reordering properties - 1113 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: #181 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and Tag - 664 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: #112 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 1
YAML to dotenv - 1358 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #152 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 407 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #130 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate an entry for each month - 360 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: #72 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 296 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #42 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Scala Method - 296 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: #73 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #23 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 736 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #44 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 255 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: #71 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 3
extract struct tag in go - 149 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #7 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 126 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #20 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 2
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 218 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: #54 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
Word completion - 284 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #29 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix timezone format - 324 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 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 319 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: #21 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove adjacent duplicates - 658 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #101 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to single level - 1687 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: #131 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rearrange array to one line - 804 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #121 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 2
months to html list items - 1119 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #263 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 37
  • Position: #136 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove line numbers - 777 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: 43
  • Position: #178 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 575 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #224 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2661 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #488 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #318 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Markdown Blog Editing - 451 entries

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

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entered into 27 challenges

contributed 1 challenges