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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #835 / 7407
  • Number of attempts: 12
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6298 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #594 / 1535
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18710 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1479 / 3857
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2486 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #418 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2869 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #294 / 847
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10846 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #574 / 3060
  • Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3791 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #362 / 858
  • Number of attempts: 9
Format java properties - 88 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #34 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #173 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 6
Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #52 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15967 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2258 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 263 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #75 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
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