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Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #67 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 5
Find fix point of cos - 1426 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #348 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #510 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1633 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #330 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1801 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #520 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4563 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #902 / 1113
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2448 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #447 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1008 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #315 / 317
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #502 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #228 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #3409 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1495 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #679 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #2968 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1694 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11497 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #4064 / 4215
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3924 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 1
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