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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1286 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 15
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: 17
  • Position: #659 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #186 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 3
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #224 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1838 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #373 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #326 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #510 / 907
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 41 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #17 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1561 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1308 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1794 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 11
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 102 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #31 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2246 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: 19
  • Position: #577 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 152 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #24 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 67 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 3
  • Position: #27 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3071 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1452 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3829 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #251 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 55 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #18 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #492 / 785
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1847 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 4
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