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Played Challenges

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 324 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #10 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2064 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #163 / 375
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4450 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #264 / 1089
Number of attempts: 8

Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: 30
Position: #361 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 695 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #87 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 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: #16 / 220
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: 27
Position: #114 / 229
Number of attempts: 6

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33533 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: #2768 / 7396
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #233 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #88 / 202
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4600 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #515 / 1264
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #506 / 1532
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #824 / 3855
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1072 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #124 / 279
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 918 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #136 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4795 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #752 / 1891
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #445 / 845
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #91 / 258
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #559 / 3058
Number of attempts: 5

Bad Copy Syntax - 2025 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #184 / 521
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #749 / 1157
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #298 / 855
Number of attempts: 10

Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #1547 / 1872
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #294 / 703
Number of attempts: 9

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #293 / 640
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 701
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3027 / 4181
Number of attempts: 6

Back to the roots - 61 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #34 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #216 / 1261
Number of attempts: 4

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #67 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #536 / 2121
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2209 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: #268 / 669
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #260 / 499
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #178 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #214 / 389
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #167 / 446
Number of attempts: 17

Cartesian product - 248 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #61 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #619 / 1190
Number of attempts: 12

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 41
Position: #22 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1930 / 4170
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #416 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #99 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2476 / 3678
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1803 / 3957
Number of attempts: 6

NATO phonetic alphabet - 526 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 195
Number of attempts: 11

Alphabet soup - 428 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 44
Position: #100 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #975 / 1743
Number of attempts: 3

Replacing some words - 425 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #123 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 470 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #103 / 175
Number of attempts: 1