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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: #480 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4670 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #399 / 1285
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1082 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #172 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5045 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #856 / 1644
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #639 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #673 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #183 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #173 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirrored text - 185 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #49 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #53 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 143 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #81 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #67 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #209 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #400 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10721 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2129 / 3704
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1547 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7517 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #268 / 1851
  • Number of attempts: 3
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