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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #631 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #72 / 3852
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #222 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1184 / 3055
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #371 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 3
Pretty multi-line bash - 219 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #59 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 689 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #72 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #57 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #116 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2407 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #417 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: #16 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 3
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 62 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #21 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #53 / 1132
  • Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 136 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #28 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #45 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 72 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #19 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #6 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #129 / 748
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2321 / 3626
  • Number of attempts: 3
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