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Played Challenges

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 81 entries

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

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 142
  • Position: #23 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #37 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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: #336 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #225 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #26 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 720 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: #160 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #434 / 497
  • Number of attempts: 1
C# function to F# - 22 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: 105
  • Best player score: 160
  • Position: #8 / 8
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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 / 7308
  • Number of attempts: 15
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #239 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #171 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1073 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #305 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3225 / 3815
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #401 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4651 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1818 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #718 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #207 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #636 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #747 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #559 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1169 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #642 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #468 / 630
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3036 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #455 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #217 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1634 / 2072
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 1941 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #422 / 479
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #862 / 1176
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3331 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3167 / 3647
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #620 / 1724
  • Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 11897 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3211 / 3482
  • Number of attempts: 1
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