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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4596 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #29 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 13
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #2060 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 12
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 952 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #15 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 13
Add text at some column - 180 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #7 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #306 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #17 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #601 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 13
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #50 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 11
Aliases for cd - 909 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #36 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 15
Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #77 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 6
Unsemantic linewrapping - 947 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #57 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #706 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #219 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 5
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 350 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #14 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #41 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #36 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #412 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 11
Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #170 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #359 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #95 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 11
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #272 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 9
Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #51 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 4
html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #14 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 7
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #44 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 10
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #52 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #151 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1340 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #253 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #205 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 17
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #54 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #525 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 8
One to Ten - 2249 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: #248 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: #31 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 10
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #44 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 7
Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #35 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 25
Reorder the groups - 1199 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #65 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 9
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #23 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 10
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #459 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #981 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 18
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #275 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1482 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #167 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 16
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1079 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 9
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #594 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #614 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #505 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 4
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