Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #3153 / 7421
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1048 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 5
Prime Numbers - 374 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 374
- Position: #100 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2117 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #19 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #159 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 4
SQL to YAML - 52 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
- Best score: 71
- Best player score: 89
- Position: #15 / 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 177 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #24 / 71
- Number of attempts: 3
Inner hyphens - 136 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #33 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #52 / 184
- Number of attempts: 2
Manual SQL - 160 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #9 / 50
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #36 / 290
- Number of attempts: 7
Condensed Cases - 804 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #169 / 247
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1637 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2022 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #64 / 585
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #2582 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #378 / 702
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3100 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 291 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #159 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #9 / 67
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #44 / 754
- Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #273 / 777
- Number of attempts: 5
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #92 / 419
- Number of attempts: 3
Calculate the table totals - 146 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #20 / 45
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2104 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
SQL to YAML - 52 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...