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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4362 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 1071
Number of attempts: 7

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #66 / 457
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #279 / 7364
Number of attempts: 12

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #321 / 1517
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #177 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #131 / 3044
Number of attempts: 9

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #79 / 516
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #159 / 1864
Number of attempts: 9

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #114 / 744
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #58 / 695
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #167 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #358 / 1258
Number of attempts: 8

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #11 / 51
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #691 / 2100
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #95 / 418
Number of attempts: 4

Angular naming conventions - 301 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: 18
Position: #24 / 114
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #15 / 115
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #156 / 1186
Number of attempts: 8

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 274
Number of attempts: 6

Land of the Lost - 77 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 26
Best player score: 35
Position: #13 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #40 / 148
Number of attempts: 3

Interleave lines - 158 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: 17
Position: #4 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 43
Position: #80 / 86
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #13 / 440
Number of attempts: 7

Not enough Ps - 66 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 35
Number of attempts: 4

Fill visual area - 82 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 36
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 284
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 234 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: 15
Position: #19 / 93
Number of attempts: 5

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #23 / 104
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #57 / 237
Number of attempts: 4

Sorting database text output - 219 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #25 / 81
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 788 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: 12
Position: #25 / 242
Number of attempts: 10

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #77 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #118 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #25 / 351
Number of attempts: 13

Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #40 / 578
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #650 / 3666
Number of attempts: 7

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #88 / 692
Number of attempts: 16

quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #188 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #513 / 3946
Number of attempts: 9

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #347 / 1736
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #337 / 3581
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #117 / 1615
Number of attempts: 13