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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33940 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: 25
  • Position: #3322 / 7494
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18861 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2185 / 3895
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1716 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10929 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2102 / 3089
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #630 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1541 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11562 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2650 / 4235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1854 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #488 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1083 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 212 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #73 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #65 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #196 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1071 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16155 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2646 / 4212
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10731 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2310 / 3706
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13013 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2442 / 3980
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13441 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1699 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 146 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

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