Questions tagged [challenges]

Question 1

First time posting on Meta, while being an absolute (probably) seasoned user here. I have been posting challenges here randomly when finding time based on finding and developing my personal curiosity....

Question 2

In this question (which is tagged kolmogorov-complexity), many answers used x for ×. I was wondering if this is generally ...

Question 3

When the author of a challenge makes a commitment to a challenge posted (e.g. "The timing will be done on my machine") but then clearly gives up on the challenge (e.g. by attempting to ...

Question 4

I have noticed that sequence questions are often looking at strictly increasing integer sequences. For these types of sequences, the sequence task of outputting the values in the sequence is largely ...

Question 5

Season 2 is coming! Season 1 was fun and relatively well-received, but the main problem was that the scoring system is very broken. Hence I'm looking for advice about how to improve the system so that ...

Question 6

Sometimes, in a challenge you might want to create some variations. You might want to encourage some extra constraint or limitation, but don't want to obligate everyone to attempt the extra difficulty,...

Question 7

"Word stays a word after taking away a letter. Repeat" was a massively downvoted question, not because of challenge, but mainly because it was badly written. Personally, I think that the ...

Question 8

Add a language to a polyglot was fun while it lasted. However, it's kinda stagnated due to the difficulty of running all the languages. I propose that we repost this challenge, maybe with stricter ...

Question 9

Every year, during December, our cousin site, Advent of Code goes live, hosting a coding challenge every day from the 1st of December to the 24th of December. There have been various attempts for ...

Question 10

Suppose there is a challenge that is rather hard, and has few answers. Is it OK to post a new challenge that is actually a part of the bigger and harder challenge? Of course, attributing the original ...

Question 11

We've probably all seen new users ask questions with cumbersome I/O rules, like mandatory taking the input by reading separated lines of STDIN and outputting to STDOUT to give an example. In those ...

Question 12

Sometimes we get tips questions from a first-time contributor asking for help golfing a particular piece of code that they wrote. Often these question don't fare so well. Can we do anything here? ...

Question 13

Easiest WordSearch I've asked a crossword related question thats been on my mind for quite a while. I've made various edits from suggestions in the comments. I don't think I can adjust the question ...

Question 14

Recently, I began to attempt to answer this highly upvoted and answered question, before realising that, by taking the length of the input as an input would allow me to greatly reduce my code. However,...

Question 15

The challenge Solve Rubik's cube has a lot of flaws: Arbitrary limits: (say, max. 5 seconds on your machine and less than 1000 moves) Cumbersome input format: The input is in the format UF ...

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Questions tagged [challenges]

How to post on this site?

Is using x for × allowed?

What do we do with an abandoned challenge that requires the author's participation?

Equivalence between strictly increasing integer sequences and decision problems

Fast and Golfiest Season 2 Looking for Advice

Is splitting a challenge into multiple categories a good way to have an optional difficulty without bonuses?

Repost "Word stays a word after taking away a letter"?

Should we rehash Add A Language To A Polyglot?

Advent of code golf?

Are parts of challenges allowed to be posted on their own?

Policy on answering challenges with cumbersome I/O

On "golf this for me" tips questions

I asked a word question that has run away with me?

How to request clarifications when the challenge poster has left the site?

Can I redo the Solve Rubik's Cube challenge?

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