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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 29
  • Position: #4859 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1161 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1289 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1320 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4848 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1330 / 1907
  • 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: 18
  • Position: #676 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #81 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1012 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #761 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1552 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #346 / 469
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 23
  • Position: #528 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1415 / 1658
  • Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 321 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #77 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2751 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #236 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1888 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #665 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3857 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1010 / 1142
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3511 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 1
Jules
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