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Played Challenges

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 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: #58 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 17
Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #160 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #514 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 20
Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #23 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 12
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #30 / 569
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4751 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #649 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #368 / 840
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #65 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 9
Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #147 / 630
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #932 / 1144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #33 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 10
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #532 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 30
Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #178 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 70
  • Position: #93 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 10
From argument to object - 1474 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 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #20 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #354 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #238 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 12
Convert Application Output to CSV - 187 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #22 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1223 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #223 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 11
ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #148 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #457 / 2101
  • Number of attempts: 10
One to Ten - 2165 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 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 272 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #36 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #22 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 6
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #124 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #311 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: #118 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #423 / 1186
  • Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #858 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1378 / 3667
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #969 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 4
Alphabet soup - 419 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #59 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #548 / 1736
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1720 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #1387 / 1616
  • Number of attempts: 7
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