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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3366 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #412 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #664 / 1909
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #798 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2559 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1118 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #652 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1325 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #515 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2909 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 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3616 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1078 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #261 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1791 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2247 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: #383 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 212 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 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 4
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #333 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove quotes after first field - 408 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #89 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 998 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: #120 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #432 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1085 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #4110 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2493 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1108 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 5
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