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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4593 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #241 / 1120
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #124 / 329
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 753 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 7
Position: #292 / 321
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: 29
Position: #4593 / 7502
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1175 / 3898
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1092 / 1910
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10934 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #950 / 3092
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5107 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1024 / 1665
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2017 / 4243
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Position: #126 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #119 / 222
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 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: 12
Position: #57 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1011 / 2153
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 342 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: 20
Position: #71 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2247 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 685
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #77 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #40 / 147
Number of attempts: 5

Assign numbers to fields - 121 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #552 / 1196
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: 24
Position: #134 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

Line 'em up! - 426 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #81 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #203 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 229 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: 26
Position: #67 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #102 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1631 / 4217
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #598 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #309 / 358
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #367 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #829 / 3711
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1508 / 3985
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #286 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #560 / 775
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #185 / 785
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #91 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1190 / 1758
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #451 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #331 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #321 / 648
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2343 / 3877
Number of attempts: 1