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Played Challenges

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 39 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #7 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Scala Method - 37 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #16 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 95 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #23 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 184 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #18 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 72 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #24 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 3
extract struct tag in go - 24 entries

Can you extract all struct tags in the fewest keystrokes possible?

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #5 / 10
  • Number of attempts: 3
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 54 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

  • Best score: 57
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #17 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 2
Word completion - 153 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #18 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix timezone format - 207 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: 15
  • Position: #4 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 134 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #13 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove adjacent duplicates - 421 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #69 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to single level - 1166 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #92 / 192
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rearrange array to one line - 571 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #90 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 2
Populate 3D bone names list - 610 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #126 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove line numbers - 703 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: 43
  • Position: #165 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 546 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #224 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2518 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #462 / 549
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #315 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Markdown Blog Editing - 242 entries

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

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entered into 18 challenges

contributed 1 challenges