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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: 22
  • Position: #2066 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 10
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: 20
  • Position: #18 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #469 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #817 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 13
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #421 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #628 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #249 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 7
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #452 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1946 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 3
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