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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #2462 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1809 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1000 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #712 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #72 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 2
readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #32 / 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: 37
  • Position: #50 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #307 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 456 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #181 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1539 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2730 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2220 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
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