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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33972 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: #7220 / 7505
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4861 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1791 / 1911
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1171 / 1182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #1803 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 131
  • Position: #129 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4133 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2248 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: #620 / 686
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #183 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #4208 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #583 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1236 / 1761
  • 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 - 13564 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #3845 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7630 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #1840 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Matthias Kausl
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entered into 14 challenges

contributed 1 challenges