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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: 31
  • Position: #5705 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
  • Position: #134 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add text at some column - 184 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #28 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3107 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #226 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #52 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #390 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #705 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #217 / 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: 28
  • Position: #221 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
  • Position: #92 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 12
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #405 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #378 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #737 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #921 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3006 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #529 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1118 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 35
  • Position: #41 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
  • Position: #397 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 8
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #333 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2727 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1477 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1074 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
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A 1-piece jigsaw puzzl' made of chickpea balls.

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