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Copy punctuation - 536 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #59 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 5
Column wise pasting - 176 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #34 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 3
Deleting text - 262 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #55 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1064 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #38 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 9
Quicksort - 2005 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: 24
  • Position: #253 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove line numbers - 736 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #70 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 14
  • Position: #67 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 7
Paste a column after a column - 2557 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #102 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 66
  • Position: #131 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Many duplicates - 1451 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #299 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 4
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