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Played Challenges

Create json from a .env file - 1518 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #169 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 8
YAML to dotenv - 1459 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #75 / 298
  • Number of attempts: 5
Remove adjacent duplicates - 666 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #110 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rearrange array to single level - 1727 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #149 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quicksort - 2095 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #361 / 465
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
  • Position: #247 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #249 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #795 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2598 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1536 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #276 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #227 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 649 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #48 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
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