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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2537 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #19 / 553
  • Number of attempts: 10
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 408 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #8 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 4
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 734 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #12 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 11
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #13 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 10
Reformat symbols in list - 1621 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #34 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fizzbuzz - 573 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 45
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #24 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 7
Substraction (bis) - 603 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #18 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 9
Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #17 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: 22
  • Position: #1464 / 7420
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #143 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #189 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 8
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