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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #2619 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wget failed to download redirections - 205 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #43 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #955 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #314 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #304 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1526 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #84 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #551 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #152 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Refactoring useless Method away - 124 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #9 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 6
Test everything! - 187 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #41 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 807 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #119 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #41 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1745 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #51 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #506 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #102 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #155 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #21 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2702 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2178 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #232 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2182 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #406 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #335 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #113 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #368 / 628
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1398 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #314 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 8
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