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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 31
  • Position: #5640 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1196 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2512 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1346 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #746 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #526 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #726 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #562 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2773 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #940 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1886 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 342 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #66 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #993 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3339 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1013 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1345 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2728 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1535 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2195 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7513 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #1673 / 1849
  • Number of attempts: 1
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