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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1883 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 14
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #114 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10955 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #810 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #242 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #533 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3649 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #599 / 1184
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 8002 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #591 / 1900
  • Number of attempts: 11
html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #27 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 18
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #107 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 9
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #292 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #241 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 10
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #568 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 2249 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: #471 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #111 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1380 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #705 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5121 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #544 / 1762
  • Number of attempts: 7
Michał Łowicki
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software engineering manager @facebook, previously @opera, never satisfied

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