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Played Challenges

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 305 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #10 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #162 / 370
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4362 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #256 / 1071
Number of attempts: 8

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: 30
Position: #355 / 457
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: #87 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

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: #16 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

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: 27
Position: #111 / 225
Number of attempts: 6

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #2761 / 7363
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #228 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

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: #85 / 196
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #513 / 1257
Number of attempts: 7

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: #497 / 1517
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #819 / 3842
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1053 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #122 / 273
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 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: #134 / 224
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: #752 / 1879
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #443 / 840
Number of attempts: 2

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: #89 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #559 / 3044
Number of attempts: 5

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: #181 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #743 / 1144
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #291 / 826
Number of attempts: 10

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #1540 / 1864
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #292 / 700
Number of attempts: 9

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #291 / 635
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 695
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3024 / 4164
Number of attempts: 6

Back to the roots - 52 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #32 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #216 / 1258
Number of attempts: 4

Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #67 / 79
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #536 / 2100
Number of attempts: 6

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: #268 / 662
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #258 / 496
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #175 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 784 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 / 384
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #165 / 443
Number of attempts: 17

Cartesian product - 221 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #59 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #616 / 1186
Number of attempts: 12

Simple Maths - 45 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 41
Position: #20 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1928 / 4161
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #414 / 1129
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffle puzzle - 317 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: #96 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2470 / 3666
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1796 / 3945
Number of attempts: 6

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #53 / 191
Number of attempts: 11

Alphabet soup - 419 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 44
Position: #97 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #972 / 1735
Number of attempts: 3

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #122 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 456 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: #101 / 172
Number of attempts: 1