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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #1588 / 7502
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #256 / 1290
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1245 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #617 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #88 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #19 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #231 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #26 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 12
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #112 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 13
Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1185 / 4243
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #201 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #148 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #427 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 8
Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #9 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 7
unknown command - 175 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #29 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #401 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #812 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1342 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3513 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 1
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