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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 24
  • Position: #3050 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1212 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #503 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 9
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #155 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #39 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 5
Triangular Numbers - 120 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #8 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #233 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #70 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 4
Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #17 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
The D a n k Side of the Moon - 70 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #21 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2258 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: 12
  • Position: #76 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 4
Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #76 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #16 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #90 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #414 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1191 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 6
David A. Lyon
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Interested in development & design of machine/machine & machine/human translation layers as they apply to democratizing plant biology. Will bake you cookies.

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