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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #558 / 1124
Number of attempts: 3

Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: 24
Position: #243 / 496
Number of attempts: 5

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: #114 / 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: #45 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #193 / 229
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: 25
Position: #131 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #162 / 537
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: 33
Position: #166 / 235
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: 16
Position: #1061 / 1563
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2299 / 3904
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #210 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1528 / 3098
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #380 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #611 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #945 / 1185
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #659 / 910
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #953 / 1901
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #180 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #150 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #586 / 647
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3094 / 4258
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #564 / 596
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 553 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #124 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #1930 / 2158
Number of attempts: 3

mp3 - Cutlist - 51 entries

An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.

Best score: 64
Best player score: 201
Position: #16 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #337 / 515
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 48
Position: #253 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 70
Position: #161 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3406 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1041 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2873 / 3717
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 44
Position: #663 / 711
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2531 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #386 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1261 / 1764
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2103 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #456 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 45
Position: #1246 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4