114
votes
91
votes
Accepted
Diagonal Alphabet
Charcoal, 2 bytes
↘β
Try it online!
How?
β - the lowercase alphabet
↘ - direction
Exactly the kind of challenge for ...
- 97.2k
66
votes
Print/Output the L-phabet
Excel, 19,604 bytes
=CHAR(64+MAX(COLUMN(),ROW()))
Paste this formula in A1, then drag all over ...
- 17.4k
62
votes
Create an Alphabet Song
Bash (+coreutils), 81, 87, 82, 78 bytes
Uses the man page for X, as the source of words.
Golfed
...
- 8,406
42
votes
Print/Output the L-phabet
Vim, 43 bytes
:h<_↵jjYZZPqqlmaYp`ajyl:norm v0r♥"↵`ajq25@q
Here ↵ represents Return (...
- 66.8k
41
votes
Alphabet triangle
Vim, 37 bytes
:h<_↵↵↵YZZPP$xqqxYpGP√2G$A♥-€k$q24@qJ
Legend
↵ = Return
√ = Ctrl+V
♥ = Ctrl+R
€ = Escape
- 66.8k
41
votes
39
votes
Print an alphabet wave
C, 60 bytes
main(i){for(;i<703;)putchar(i++%27?65+(i/27+i%27%2)%26:10);}
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37
votes
36
votes
Create an Alphabet Song
Python 2, 88 77 bytes
-11 bytes thanks to xnor (avoid the zip by traversing the string and counting c up from 65)
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34
votes
Accepted
Print a Tabula Recta!
05AB1E, 6 5 bytes
Thanks to Downgoat for saving 1 byte. Code:
ADv=À
Explanation:
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- 43.9k
33
votes
Pointlessly make your way down the alphabet
Dyalog APL Extended, 4 bytes
⌽∘⍳¨
Try it online!
...
- 20.2k
31
votes
Create an Alphabet Song
Bash, 78, 69 bytes
Aardvarks, Babushkas and Kamikazes !
Golfed
sed -nr '/^[a-z]{9}$/s/(.)/\u\1 is for &/p'</u*/*/*/words|sort -uk1,1
EDITS
Got rid of grep, ...
- 8,406
30
votes
Print a Tabula Recta!
Python 2, 59 57 53 bytes
a=range(65,91)*27
a[::-27]=[10]*26
print bytearray(a)
Thanks to @xsot for -4 bytes!
- 1,123
30
votes
Alphabet triangle
Logo, 232 207 196 190 bytes
Did somebody say triangles?
Get out your compass and protractor, and let's do this the graphical way. The geometry uses an equilateral triangle to align the results. I ...
- 1,091
30
votes
NATO phonetic spelling can take long
SageMath, 260 255 253 247 246 241 236 234 233 231 bytes
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- 561
28
votes
Print/Output the L-phabet
Jelly, 6 bytes
ØA»'j⁷
Try it here. If only I hadn’t been lazy yesterday and implemented that one-byte alternative to j⁷ (join ...
- 66.8k
28
votes
Alphabet Diamond
Vim, 62, 60 keystrokes
:se ri|h<_<cr>jjYZZPqqx$pYpq26@qdjyH:g/^/m0<cr>VP:%norm DPA<C-v><C-r>"<C-v><esc>x<cr>
...
- 57.7k
27
votes
Output the alphabet, the ALPHABET, or just a character
Pyth, 10 bytes
h/#z[GrG1z
Test suite
We start by constructing a list with 3 elements: the lowercase alphabet, the uppercase alphabet, and the input. (...
- 41.5k
25
votes
A very long Terza Rima
JavaScript (ES6), 51 50 49 bytes
Saved 1 byte thanks to @l4m2
f=(n=45358)=>n%63?f(n-1333)+n.toString(36)+' ':''
Try it online!
How?
We start with n = 45358 (yzy ...
- 177k
23
votes
Accepted
Output the alphabet, the ALPHABET, or just a character
TeaScript, 5 bytes
xN(0)
TeaScript has a (almost) built-in for this :D
Try it online (note: the online interpreter has been updated to TeaScript v3 so in which ...
- 28.7k
22
votes
Encode the alphabet cipher
05AB1E, 11 6 bytes
Code:
Ç4+€¦J
Explanation:
First, we convert the string to their ASCII values. codegolf would become:
<...
- 43.9k
22
votes
Make an alphabet searchlight!
R, 67 55 bytes
for(i in 26:1)cat(rep(" ",i-1),LETTERS[i:1],"
",sep="")
Try it online!
- 27.2k
22
votes
22
votes
21
votes
Print the Russian Cyrillic alphabet
Рапира (Rapira), 172 142 bytes
ВЫВОД: "АаБбВвГгДдЕеЁёЖжЗзИиЙйКкЛлМмНнОоПпСсТтУуФфХхЦцЧчШшЩщЪъЫыЬьЭэЮюЯя"
Try it online!
Just for fun, given the challenge....
- 1,950
20
votes
20
votes
Enumerate a Cell Notation
Microsoft Excel, 43 Bytes.
=COLUMN(INDIRECT(A1))&" "&ROW(INDIRECT(A1))
I couldn't help myself, I just had to use the right tool for the job.
...
- 8,495
20
votes
Accepted
Make an alphabet searchlight!
05AB1E, 7 bytes
Code:
₂žp.s1Λ
Uses the 05AB1E encoding. Try it online!
Explanation
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- 43.9k
19
votes
Print/Output the L-phabet
Dyalog APL, 11 bytes
⎕A[∘.⌈⍨⍳26]
A[...] pick elements from the uppercase alphabet ...
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