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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33613 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 / 7417
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #16 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1026 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #119 / 753
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #65 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11448 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #425 / 4196
  • Number of attempts: 12
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #22 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #5 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7904 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #157 / 2126
  • Number of attempts: 8
Free hyphen! - 169 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: #43 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 131 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 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #144 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #73 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 136 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #23 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 320 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: #82 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #5 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #91 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 9
Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 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: #22 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #98 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 3
readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #8 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interleave lines - 185 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: #25 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #14 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 8
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #161 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove all lines in first part - 211 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: #20 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #16 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 6
Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #55 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 9
  • Position: #78 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #260 / 4179
  • Number of attempts: 11
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #556 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #700 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 7
attr_aligner - 3511 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #374 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12930 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #540 / 3962
  • Number of attempts: 8
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #78 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #883 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 724 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #112 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12787 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 / 3688
  • Number of attempts: 3
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