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Played Challenges

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #61 / 234
Number of attempts: 12

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #1745 / 7489
Number of attempts: 17

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #37 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #160 / 1557
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #514 / 3893
Number of attempts: 20

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #23 / 287
Number of attempts: 12

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #31 / 590
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #649 / 1904
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #379 / 864
Number of attempts: 6

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #65 / 3087
Number of attempts: 9

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #147 / 636
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #962 / 1179
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #33 / 901
Number of attempts: 10

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #538 / 1895
Number of attempts: 30

Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #184 / 234
Number of attempts: 5

html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 70
Position: #97 / 130
Number of attempts: 10

From argument to object - 1536 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #109 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #20 / 180
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #358 / 707
Number of attempts: 7

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #240 / 642
Number of attempts: 12

Convert Application Output to CSV - 214 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 57
Number of attempts: 9

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1223 / 4234
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #223 / 592
Number of attempts: 11

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 270
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #457 / 2147
Number of attempts: 10

One to Ten - 2243 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: 12
Position: #96 / 683
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #36 / 101
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #22 / 257
Number of attempts: 6

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #135 / 147
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #317 / 453
Number of attempts: 2

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: 30
Position: #123 / 231
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #423 / 1194
Number of attempts: 12

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #858 / 4208
Number of attempts: 11

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1378 / 3703
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #981 / 3979
Number of attempts: 4

Alphabet soup - 445 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #63 / 111
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #548 / 1756
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1783 / 3846
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 52
Position: #1519 / 1847
Number of attempts: 7