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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1814 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #189 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: 23
  • Position: #2709 / 7459
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2522 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #262 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2910 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #206 / 861
  • Number of attempts: 5
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1241 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: 19
  • Position: #28 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1193 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2054 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #395 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3616 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #712 / 1174
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3910 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #402 / 887
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7956 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1250 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1318 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2240 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: 22
  • Position: #603 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #60 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #148 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #954 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10703 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1454 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1776 / 3972
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #607 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 7
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