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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 22
  • Position: #332 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #329 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #113 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #572 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #17 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 6
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 196 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #17 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #139 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #127 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #26 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 5
Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #14 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #167 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #355 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #151 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #905 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #251 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #663 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #402 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #150 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 6
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