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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2128 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #10 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #254 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2450 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: 20
  • Position: #32 / 485
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1015 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #127 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 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: 21
  • Position: #96 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 3
Capitalize the Names - 412 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #91 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: 31
  • Position: #152 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #2155 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #175 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1440 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #438 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #331 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3055 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1219 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1123 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Capitalize the Names - 412 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Alek Mugnozzo
Twitter:

#b3d / #python / #linux / #FLOSS

entered into 16 challenges

contributed 1 challenges