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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: #1998 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 15
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #6 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #308 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #28 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #804 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 16
Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #53 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 7
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #39 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #74 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #212 / 856
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #40 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 8
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 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: #33 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #325 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 8
Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #156 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #339 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #89 / 876
  • Number of attempts: 12
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #518 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 14
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1334 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #209 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 9
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #57 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 17
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #521 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 6
Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #3 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2227 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: #241 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #25 / 507
  • Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #964 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 10
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1472 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1061 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1840 / 3737
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

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