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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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 / 7503
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #16 / 1291
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1035 / 1910
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #119 / 767
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #65 / 708
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #425 / 4246
Number of attempts: 12

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #22 / 1277
Number of attempts: 8

Fun With The Diagonal - 110 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #5 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #157 / 2153
Number of attempts: 8

Free hyphen! - 191 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: #48 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 134 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 / 83
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #144 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 296 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 35
Position: #74 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 145 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #24 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 342 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: #85 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 90 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #5 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #91 / 1196
Number of attempts: 9

Rail fence transposition cipher - 97 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: #23 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #99 / 282
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 153
Number of attempts: 2

Interleave lines - 208 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 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #14 / 89
Number of attempts: 8

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #164 / 454
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 - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #78 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #260 / 4218
Number of attempts: 11

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #559 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #700 / 3711
Number of attempts: 7

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #379 / 709
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #551 / 3986
Number of attempts: 8

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 378 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #79 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #890 / 1759
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 60
Position: #120 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 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 / 3879
Number of attempts: 3