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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: 43
  • Position: #7237 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 932 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #260 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4651 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1235 / 1278
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #464 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #575 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #795 / 860
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2286 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2054 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #526 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3616 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1167 / 1174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #883 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11511 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3632 / 4219
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #2037 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2240 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: #606 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #506 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #193 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #4025 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3420 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13169 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3292 / 3784
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alvaro Melendez
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