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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 423 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #243 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #206 / 457
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #255 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #54 / 292
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #71 / 213
Number of attempts: 6

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #104 / 166
Number of attempts: 6

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #176 / 518
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 37
Position: #172 / 225
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 24
Position: #3067 / 7364
Number of attempts: 7

Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #109 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #329 / 1257
Number of attempts: 8

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #606 / 1517
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2774 / 3842
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #140 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Aliases for cd - 849 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 41
Position: #61 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #744 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #246 / 840
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #90 / 254
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #191 / 244
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1891 / 3044
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #200 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #785 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #385 / 827
Number of attempts: 9

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #942 / 1865
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3085 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #121 / 261
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #565 / 2101
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2165 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: #292 / 662
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #183 / 496
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #226 / 443
Number of attempts: 10

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1967 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #411 / 1129
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1532 / 3667
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1821 / 3946
Number of attempts: 6

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #81 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1843 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2