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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #757 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 14
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #879 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1466 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 16
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #432 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1566 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #25 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 9
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #325 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 17
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4198 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 131 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #11 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1291 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 6
Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #80 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 8
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #102 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #113 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #267 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3916 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #185 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1055 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 11
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #752 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 9
Delete unwanted lines - 450 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #234 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #102 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 7
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #230 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 2
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