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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #564 / 1122
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2485 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 / 495
Number of attempts: 3

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 331
Number of attempts: 4

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: #40 / 322
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 731 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: #201 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 797 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: #109 / 176
Number of attempts: 3

Capitalize the Names - 430 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: #88 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #167 / 536
Number of attempts: 2

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: 21
Position: #23 / 235
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #3731 / 7508
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 952 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #257 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 660 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #190 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #643 / 1291
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #970 / 1560
Number of attempts: 9

One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2301 / 3901
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #179 / 290
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #391 / 592
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 947 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: #233 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #624 / 866
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #199 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1524 / 3096
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #497 / 542
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #426 / 1183
Number of attempts: 5

Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #526 / 909
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #369 / 1899
Number of attempts: 7

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 25
Position: #683 / 710
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #294 / 645
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3093 / 4252
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #232 / 1277
Number of attempts: 12

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #191 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1688 / 2153
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2249 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: #612 / 687
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #273 / 515
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1199 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #157 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #420 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1122 / 1197
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2381 / 4221
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2871 / 3712
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2529 / 3987
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2404 / 3892
Number of attempts: 4