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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #559 / 1117
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 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: 21
Position: #176 / 492
Number of attempts: 3

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #226 / 327
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #40 / 319
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: 18
Position: #200 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 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: 22
Position: #108 / 175
Number of attempts: 3

Capitalize the Names - 429 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: 53
Position: #87 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #167 / 535
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: 21
Position: #23 / 234
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 26
Position: #3728 / 7489
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #254 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #188 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #640 / 1284
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #967 / 1557
Number of attempts: 9

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2295 / 3893
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #177 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #390 / 590
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 23
Position: #231 / 235
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #622 / 864
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #197 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1521 / 3087
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #494 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #426 / 1179
Number of attempts: 5

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #522 / 901
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #369 / 1895
Number of attempts: 7

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 25
Position: #680 / 707
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #292 / 642
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3089 / 4234
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #232 / 1274
Number of attempts: 12

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #190 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1684 / 2147
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2243 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: 22
Position: #609 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2087 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #271 / 513
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #155 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #416 / 453
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1119 / 1194
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2375 / 4208
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2866 / 3703
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2525 / 3979
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2380 / 3845
Number of attempts: 4