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Played Challenges

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2798 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 86 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 14259 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 649 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 37
  • Number of attempts: 1
Triangular Numbers - 63 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 1702 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
  • Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 404 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 705 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 621 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
Build a six - 254 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
The D a n k Side of the Moon - 30 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 68
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 3874 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 29767 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: 24
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 16220 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 9
prepend * to every non-blank line - 2522 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 6012 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Number of attempts: 5
David A. Lyon
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Interested in development & design of machine/machine & machine/human translation layers as they apply to democratizing plant biology. Will bake you cookies.

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