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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #12 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #42 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #32 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1875 / 3961
  • Number of attempts: 2
It's a factor - 104 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #23 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #40 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #38 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 2
Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

  • Best score: 62
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #12 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 3
Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #10 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 2
Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #26 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 3
Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #39 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #10 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 3
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #11 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 3
Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #18 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 2
lamb had a little Mary - 607 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #7 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 7
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #186 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 420 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #8 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 757 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #135 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #60 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12765 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1060 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6942 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #55 / 1699
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Draw the Go board - 149 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Change The Perspective - 38 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

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