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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3372 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #413 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #664 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #800 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2566 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1121 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #654 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1327 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #516 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #243 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3624 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1081 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #262 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1794 / 2157
  • 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: 13
  • Position: #384 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 220 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #48 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 4
Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #334 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove quotes after first field - 411 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #90 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #121 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #434 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1088 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #4117 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2497 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1121 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 5
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