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Played Challenges

Easy modification of ssh config - 353 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #41 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 4
ssh config skills - 256 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #50 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4450 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #39 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 8
Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: 20
  • Position: #71 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 13
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 950 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #140 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #37 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #254 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: 22
  • Position: #77 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: #2269 / 7397
  • Number of attempts: 9
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #54 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #332 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #703 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 10
Quote modules - 1072 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #72 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 5
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #45 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 12
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #474 / 845
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1616 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2025 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #11 / 521
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #820 / 1157
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #321 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #787 / 1872
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #168 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #565 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3120 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 3
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #29 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #844 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2209 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: #312 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2028 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #187 / 499
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reorder the groups - 1176 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #118 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #34 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1229 / 4170
  • Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #15 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #214 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #364 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #391 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 11
Alphabet soup - 428 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #41 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1868 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 5
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