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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 41
  • Position: #7234 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1796 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1175 / 1187
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #1805 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 131
  • Position: #130 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4141 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2260 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: 23
  • Position: #622 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #184 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #4213 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #588 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1239 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 3
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 177
  • Position: #81 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #3871 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7722 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #1855 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Matthias Kausl
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entered into 14 challenges

contributed 1 challenges