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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #757 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 14
Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #861 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1446 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 16
V to the i - 4751 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #432 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1474 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #25 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 9
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #318 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 17
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4109 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #11 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1267 / 2101
  • Number of attempts: 6
Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #76 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 8
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #98 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #108 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #267 / 1186
  • Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3858 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #185 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1055 / 3667
  • Number of attempts: 11
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #736 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 9
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #224 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #102 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 7
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #229 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 2
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