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Played Challenges

Fix the shell script! - 2703 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #569 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 406 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #71 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #3447 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 16
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1207 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6399 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #143 / 1564
  • Number of attempts: 12
One number per line - 18911 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2286 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #236 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #272 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #704 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #219 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #738 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 7
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #538 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #357 / 1187
  • Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #516 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1023 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11634 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3014 / 4262
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #787 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1678 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2260 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: #596 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #458 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1945 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1479 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #307 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 13
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1078 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #593 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1906 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7734 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #990 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 8
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