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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33571 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: #1376 / 7405
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18709 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #439 / 3856
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #7 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #619 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2865 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #74 / 846
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10845 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #40 / 3060
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3574 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #13 / 1158
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #27 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #113 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1180 / 4185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #300 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7898 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #424 / 2124
  • Number of attempts: 6
Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #14 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #6 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 7
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #51 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 6
unknown command - 166 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #12 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #402 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15967 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #758 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10656 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1337 / 3679
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #939 / 3960
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12680 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #555 / 3665
  • Number of attempts: 5
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