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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #1692 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1877 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 14
Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #112 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #804 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #238 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #531 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #596 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #589 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 11
html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #26 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 18
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #105 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 9
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #290 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 15
  • Position: #239 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 10
Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #568 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 2241 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #468 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #110 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1374 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #701 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #544 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 7
Michał Łowicki
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software engineering manager @facebook, previously @opera, never satisfied

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