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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: 22
  • Position: #1769 / 7500
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #485 / 1290
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1892 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #253 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 13
  • Position: #151 / 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: 14
  • Position: #2107 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #619 / 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: 13
  • Position: #255 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #85 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #97 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #35 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #26 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2846 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #224 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1077 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #96 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #463 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #477 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #135 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 5
  • Position: #127 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 35
  • Position: #67 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #860 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2395 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #994 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1794 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 3
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