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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #3089 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #80 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #498 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1014 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #189 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules (ver.2) - 253 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #47 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #418 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #450 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 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: #199 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1351 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #260 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #306 / 907
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #294 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3028 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #201 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #836 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2246 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: 14
  • Position: #503 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #235 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1217 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2450 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1810 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1876 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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