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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 15
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #6 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #308 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #28 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #809 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 16
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #54 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 7
Aliases for cd - 913 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: #40 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #74 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #214 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #40 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 8
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1273 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 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #325 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 8
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #158 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #339 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #89 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 12
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #522 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 14
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1334 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #209 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 9
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #57 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 17
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #521 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 6
Triangle of arrows - 240 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 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2258 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 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #26 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #964 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 10
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1472 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1069 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1879 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Right Align Part of the line - 154 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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