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Played Challenges

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: 9
  • Position: #122 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 3
Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #53 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 4
xrandr outputs and dashes - 754 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: 17
  • Position: #197 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #124 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 34
  • Position: #6501 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #239 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1168 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
  • Position: #1234 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #277 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #702 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #244 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #549 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #519 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1168 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #617 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3082 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2379 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3442 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3764 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #3845 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 1
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