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Played Challenges

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #556 / 622
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #70 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33966 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: 25
  • Position: #3442 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 16
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1203 / 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: 10
  • Position: #143 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 12
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2281 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #233 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #271 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #704 / 1909
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
  • Position: #218 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #738 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 7
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #537 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #357 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #515 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1022 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11574 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3009 / 4241
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #784 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1674 / 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: 21
  • Position: #593 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #458 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1941 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1479 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #305 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 13
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1076 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #593 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13517 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1895 / 3876
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #973 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 8
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