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Played Challenges

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 167 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #10 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 1515 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #125 / 291
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4117 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #239 / 1018
Number of attempts: 8

Satisfy the go linter - 2013 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #308 / 405
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 525 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #87 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 591 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #16 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1037 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #105 / 209
Number of attempts: 6

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32962 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: 23
Position: #2726 / 7276
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 831 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #214 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 596 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #80 / 184
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #507 / 1241
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5977 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #479 / 1468
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #803 / 3793
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1019 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #116 / 260
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 837 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #128 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #752 / 1857
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #427 / 815
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 774 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 228
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10545 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #560 / 2989
Number of attempts: 5

Bad Copy Syntax - 1938 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #178 / 493
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #730 / 1121
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #274 / 764
Number of attempts: 10

Box it - 7682 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #1513 / 1836
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #287 / 686
Number of attempts: 9

Copy three lines - 2801 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #288 / 625
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2500 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 683
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2999 / 4114
Number of attempts: 6

Back to the roots - 43 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #27 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #216 / 1228
Number of attempts: 4

Fun With The Diagonal - 97 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #67 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7535 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #536 / 2048
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2095 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #268 / 642
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 1918 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #244 / 472
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 946 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #170 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 713 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #214 / 349
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #161 / 431
Number of attempts: 17

Cartesian product - 217 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #58 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #606 / 1167
Number of attempts: 12

Simple Maths - 36 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 41
Position: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1912 / 4116
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #410 / 1112
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffle puzzle - 307 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #95 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2451 / 3638
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1780 / 3919
Number of attempts: 6

NATO phonetic alphabet - 479 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #52 / 182
Number of attempts: 11

Alphabet soup - 392 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 44
Position: #87 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4945 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #961 / 1708
Number of attempts: 3

Replacing some words - 417 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #121 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 415 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #92 / 159
Number of attempts: 1