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Played Challenges

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #7 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #183 / 737
  • Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #239 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 7
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #31 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #40 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat long lines - 341 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #33 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #13 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #41 / 401
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1001 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #272 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #3 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Frank Twitting
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