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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: #7279 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #264 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1244 / 1290
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #467 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #581 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #800 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2295 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #531 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1174 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #905 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3644 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #2043 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2247 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: #608 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #510 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #194 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #4044 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3432 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3356 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alvaro Melendez
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