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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 32
  • Position: #5784 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wget failed to download redirections - 250 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #66 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3398 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #138 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #127 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #160 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #905 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #266 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3167 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #948 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #605 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2283 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1315 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #73 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 8
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