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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2003 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: 6
  • Position: #86 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 6
Find fix point of cos - 1408 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: 15
  • Position: #203 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #489 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 2
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 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: 50
  • Position: #4 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 12
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #261 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #58 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 9
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #315 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #219 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 7
Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #51 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 9
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #719 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #63 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 16
Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #100 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 11
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #81 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 2
CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 155
  • Position: #53 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #217 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #141 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 11
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