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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #1034 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #3406 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 24
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #60 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2277 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1651 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #173 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #449 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #318 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #771 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1358 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3775 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1127 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1018 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 14
lipsum lines - 296 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #93 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 3
Angular naming conventions - 345 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: 24
  • Position: #106 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1105 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3909 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1070 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #165 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3117 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1520 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 18
  • Position: #2749 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 4
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