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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4504 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #254 / 1104
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2393 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: #211 / 472
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 957 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #263 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 703 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #54 / 302
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 710 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 / 223
Number of attempts: 6

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 775 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: #107 / 171
Number of attempts: 6

Yo To Hello - 1133 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #176 / 526
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1148 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: #177 / 231
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33703 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: #3086 / 7438
Number of attempts: 7

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #112 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #329 / 1273
Number of attempts: 8

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6325 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #619 / 1543
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2789 / 3869
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #144 / 282
Number of attempts: 4

Aliases for cd - 879 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: #63 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #744 / 1897
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #249 / 855
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #92 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1215 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: #193 / 250
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10877 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1910 / 3070
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #203 / 527
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3597 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #794 / 1167
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #405 / 871
Number of attempts: 9

Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #946 / 1880
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3090 / 4206
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #124 / 267
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 7933 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #565 / 2134
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2225 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 / 676
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2054 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #185 / 506
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #230 / 449
Number of attempts: 10

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1974 / 4188
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #413 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1532 / 3687
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1834 / 3968
Number of attempts: 6

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: #83 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12935 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1880 / 3725
Number of attempts: 2