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Played Challenges

Fix timezone format - 294 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 94
Number of attempts: 4

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 319 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 58
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4563 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #3 / 1113
Number of attempts: 7

Satisfy the go linter - 2448 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: 20
Position: #36 / 484
Number of attempts: 8

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1012 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #16 / 318
Number of attempts: 7

Multiline to Single Line - 736 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #85 / 312
Number of attempts: 4

xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 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: 12
Position: #73 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 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: 18
Position: #30 / 173
Number of attempts: 8

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #196 / 533
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: 22
Position: #73 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #2217 / 7450
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 930 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 263
Number of attempts: 10

Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #332 / 1275
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #302 / 1551
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18784 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #675 / 3878
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #70 / 285
Number of attempts: 10

Aliases for cd - 881 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 46
Position: #88 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #95 / 585
Number of attempts: 12

V to the i - 4824 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #750 / 1899
Number of attempts: 10

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #253 / 860
Number of attempts: 3

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1237 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #46 / 256
Number of attempts: 6

Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1540 / 3078
Number of attempts: 5

Bad Copy Syntax - 2052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #4 / 534
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #817 / 1173
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #1278 / 1886
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1432 / 4216
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #238 / 1270
Number of attempts: 9

ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #126 / 268
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #848 / 2144
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2239 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: 12
Position: #303 / 680
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #369 / 510
Number of attempts: 5

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #77 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2430 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #287 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1057 / 4194
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #417 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1541 / 3695
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1127 / 3970
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13095 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1889 / 3767
Number of attempts: 5

Ivan Kwong
Twitter: @IvanKwong5

I know nothing about coding, but I work as a developer in a financial institution. I am running out of word, Html is not a progamming language.