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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 25343 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
  • Number of attempts: 14
Team names - 1474 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 3230 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Number of attempts: 9
Basic renumbering - 4626 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 13042 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 2146 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2117 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 308 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2085 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9549 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 3952 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 10464 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 9335 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 11107 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2201 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 5992 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 11964 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 4
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