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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #772 / 1072
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #1726 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1488 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #131 / 840
  • Number of attempts: 3
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #195 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #327 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #337 / 1144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #470 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 11
Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #175 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 2
html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #89 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #129 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2165 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: #458 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #194 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1902 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2366 / 3666
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2461 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 1
It's a factor - 91 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 101
  • Position: #28 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 3
Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 479
  • Position: #39 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
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