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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2629 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wget failed to download redirections - 250 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: #48 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #959 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #321 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #309 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1532 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #84 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #557 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #157 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 1
Refactoring useless Method away - 135 entries

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

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #10 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 6
Test everything! - 214 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #44 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 829 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: #123 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 142 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #46 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1758 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shift down - 237 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #53 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #510 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #105 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #159 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 235 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: #23 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2712 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2186 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #237 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #411 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #339 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 664 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: #115 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #383 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13644 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1424 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #326 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 8
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