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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #2626 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wget failed to download redirections - 226 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: #45 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #957 / 1907
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #318 / 765
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #306 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1530 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #84 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #554 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #154 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 1
Refactoring useless Method away - 134 entries

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

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #10 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 6
Test everything! - 206 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: #42 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 820 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: #121 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 132 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #43 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1754 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shift down - 223 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #52 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #507 / 1142
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1028 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #103 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #156 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 211 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: #22 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2708 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2181 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #235 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #408 / 678
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #337 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 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 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1761 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #374 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1413 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #318 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 8
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