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Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #321 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 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: 22
  • Position: #62 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 13
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2145 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 11
Get mail address from outlook format - 663 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #103 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #145 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 14
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1545 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 6
add line and index - 128 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 81
  • Position: #32 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #519 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #325 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 10
html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #101 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3060 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2258 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: #275 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #81 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1397 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 6
Alphabet soup - 467 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #32 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 8
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