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Played Challenges

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: 23
  • Position: #2744 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 21
  • Position: #70 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add text at some column - 180 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #29 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 11
  • Position: #475 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #814 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #105 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
add line and index - 112 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #13 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 40
  • Position: #61 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #201 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1442 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #448 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1308 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #169 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 9
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #740 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #297 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #273 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #294 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #150 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3012 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #317 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #204 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #173 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #832 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #246 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #70 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reorder the groups - 1199 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #116 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #621 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1387 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2445 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1802 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 1
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