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Played Challenges

Markdown Blog Editing - 253 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #10 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 15
Word completion - 179 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #15 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix timezone format - 225 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #43 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove adjacent duplicates - 445 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #27 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 5
Move to corresponding lines - 241 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #7 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rearrange array to single level - 1298 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #39 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 18
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: 18
  • Position: #240 / 553
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 29
  • Position: #83 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 3
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #51 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 24
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: 25
  • Position: #90 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 12
Substraction (bis) - 603 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #31 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 15
Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #48 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 5
Many duplicates - 1445 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #183 / 468
  • Number of attempts: 4
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #55 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 13
delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #443 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #204 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 8
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1657 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #170 / 556
  • Number of attempts: 5
Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #32 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 7
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #48 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 7
Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #35 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 21
Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #260 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 5
swap number pairs - 2103 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #108 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 16
ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #26 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 12
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #512 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #736 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 1
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