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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #123 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #16 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1036 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #119 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #65 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #425 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 12
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #22 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #5 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #157 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 8
Free hyphen! - 199 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #49 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 138 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #35 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #144 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 315 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #76 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 155 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #26 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 359 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #88 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 92 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #5 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #91 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 9
Rail fence transposition cipher - 109 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #24 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #99 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 3
readability - 340 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #8 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interleave lines - 209 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #26 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 343 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #14 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 8
Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #166 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove all lines in first part - 223 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #21 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #16 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 6
Shuffled numbers - 254 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #56 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 463 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #78 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #260 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 11
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #561 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #700 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 7
attr_aligner - 3566 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #380 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #552 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 8
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 401 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #80 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #893 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #122 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #345 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
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