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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4572 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #28 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #1837 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #532 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #252 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1388 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #891 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 8
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #235 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3944 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #568 / 894
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #966 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 4
html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #86 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1259 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #32 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 13
  • Position: #382 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 5
change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #32 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #431 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #887 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1743 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1793 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #784 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 1
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