92 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in <all languages>
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### There are two new sheriffs in town – Identifying DJMcMego pairs!

We have some new sheriffs moderators in town, Mego and DJMcMayhem. We need a challenge to properly honour them for their new positions, so there we go. Here's something that has caught my attention ...
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### How tall are the monoliths?

Here is an example of an input of monoliths. There are 4 in this example. _ | | _ | | _ | | | | | | | | _ _| |_| |___| |____| |_ The first ...
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### X Steps Forward, 1 Step Back

Here the first 100 numbers of an easy sequence: ...
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### I HATE spaces in file names

It is simple. I cannot stand when people use spaces when naming files. It sometimes wrecks console commands and makes the output of ls ugly. The challenge is to write a program (only ascii characters)...
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### Zero-sum counting

Write a program or function that given n ≥ 1 returns the number of solutions to ±1 ± 2 ± 3 ± ... ± n = 0. For n = 6 there are no solutions, so the answer is 0. For n = 4 there are ...
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### Draw a hollow square of # with given width

I got this challenge from Codingame and am curious about better solutions than mine: Given a width via standard input draw a hollow square of '#' in given width and length. Example: 5 results in <...
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### Nth Differences

In math, one way to figure out what the type of a given relation (linear, quadratic, etc) is to calculate the differences. To do so you take a list of y values for which the gap between the ...
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### The (Easy) Road to Code

Input: An integer $n$, which is guaranteed to be $\ge3$. An integer $d$, which is one of $[-1,0,1]$. Output: A road of size $n$, which will be in a north-west direction if $d=-1$; a ...
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### Print the nth prime that contains n

This question will be a twist on finding the nth prime number. Challenge You must write a program that will take one input n, ...
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### Replace me by the sum of my cyclic successors!

I have a simple challenge for you this time. Given an array of positive integers A (or the equivalent in your language), replace each entry Ai with the sum of the next Ai elements of A, cycling back ...
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It is very hard to remember my password, so I came up with a way to generate a password. The way I generate my password is from a word or a sentence, following these steps: Start from left to right ...
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### The Möbius Function

The Möbius Function The Möbius function is an important number theoretic function. Your submission should accept a positive integer n and return the value of the ...
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### Give me Triangles [duplicate]

Given an integer n>0, write a program that will output an "isosceles" Triangle out of #'s of height n. Examples: ...