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Played Challenges

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #16 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 10
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #101 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #48 / 1536
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18712 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #617 / 3859
  • Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 4799 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1434 / 1892
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #50 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10848 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #442 / 3061
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2031 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #192 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #368 / 1161
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #341 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #552 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #223 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11444 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #4040 / 4193
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2209 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: #594 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2037 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #460 / 501
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #480 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3058 / 4177
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1515 / 3680
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2505 / 3961
  • Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #180 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #606 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 5
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