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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33910 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: 25
  • Position: #3195 / 7486
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1018 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1661 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #265 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5040 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1221 / 1642
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11551 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2196 / 4233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 332 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #106 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #168 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #172 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16106 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2538 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #960 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10718 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2585 / 3702
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #576 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2327 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5100 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1193 / 1755
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 620 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #106 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7478 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #773 / 1840
  • Number of attempts: 2
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