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Played Challenges

CSV to MD format - 450 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #24 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 5
Python dataclasses - 1277 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #157 / 325
  • Number of attempts: 1
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 399 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #12 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
Turn the x - 356 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #48 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 4
Format the CSS - 185 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #23 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4603 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #239 / 1125
  • Number of attempts: 3
Satisfy the go linter - 2504 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: 25
  • Position: #271 / 509
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1064 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #11 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 766 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #125 / 334
  • 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: 15
  • Position: #187 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34031 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: #2211 / 7520
  • Number of attempts: 7
Get mail address from outlook format - 665 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #138 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6400 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #247 / 1565
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3659 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #424 / 1188
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3991 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #121 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 8004 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #361 / 1902
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11636 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3102 / 4262
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16255 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1054 / 4229
  • Number of attempts: 3
Alphabet soup - 467 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #52 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 2
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