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Played Challenges

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 87 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

  • Best score: 74
  • Best player score: 142
  • Position: #25 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4319 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #37 / 1059
  • Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2120 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: 33
  • Position: #345 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 858 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #230 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 3
Multiline to Single Line - 591 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #26 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 738 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: 80
  • Position: #165 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1096 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #441 / 505
  • Number of attempts: 1
C# function to F# - 25 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert a C# function using a C# class to a F# function using a C# class.

  • Best score: 101
  • Best player score: 160
  • Position: #9 / 9
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33256 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: 22
  • Position: #2271 / 7337
  • Number of attempts: 15
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 866 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #242 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get mail address from outlook format - 617 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #176 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1076 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6148 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #305 / 1504
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3238 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2447 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #402 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1828 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2822 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #726 / 835
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 851 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #211 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10760 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #636 / 3035
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3503 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #749 / 1135
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3579 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #570 / 802
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7791 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1176 / 1856
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2877 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #648 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2828 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #469 / 632
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3040 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1797 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #457 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1368 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #222 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7708 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1642 / 2084
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 1964 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #429 / 485
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #866 / 1180
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15890 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3343 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10595 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3176 / 3657
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5013 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #620 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 12045 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3249 / 3528
  • Number of attempts: 1
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