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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33927 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 / 7488
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #482 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1888 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2526 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #251 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #149 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2104 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3624 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #616 / 1178
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3960 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #253 / 900
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #85 / 1895
  • 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 - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2844 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #224 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1074 / 1274
  • 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 - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #463 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2241 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: #475 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1046 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #134 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 858 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 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 979 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: #66 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #860 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2391 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13001 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #991 / 3978
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13369 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1785 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 3
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