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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2870 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4866 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1773 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1552 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #200 / 469
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #539 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1234 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1799 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple addition - 341 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #9 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 605 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #148 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #215 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #160 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #50 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 4
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #48 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #192 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2822 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #798 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 14
  • Position: #337 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10752 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2743 / 3713
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 16
  • Position: #617 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1176 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2566 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
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