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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 445 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #86 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Move to corresponding lines - 241 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #41 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 27
  • Position: #119 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 8
Rearrange array to one line - 602 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #56 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy punctuation - 487 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: #56 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mirror image - 75 entries

Add the second eye

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #14 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 923 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #75 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 6
months to html list items - 1010 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #147 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 396 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 154
  • Position: #61 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
Populate 3D bone names list - 629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #111 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 8
Find fix point of cos - 1402 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: #242 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 28
  • Position: #408 / 553
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #532 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #352 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 10
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #258 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1179 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 6
Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #139 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #68 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #599 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 2
Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 103
  • Position: #67 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 3
Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #105 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 532 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #57 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #281 / 335
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2016 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #1621 / 1706
  • Number of attempts: 1
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