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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #509 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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: #44 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 11
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1030 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #137 / 325
  • Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 747 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #73 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #433 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33842 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: 23
  • Position: #2792 / 7468
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 941 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #35 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6362 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #634 / 1553
  • Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #27 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #207 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #476 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10913 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #610 / 3083
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #808 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3104 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #566 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2241 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: 14
  • Position: #510 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #43 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1062 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2478 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1843 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13245 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1890 / 3804
  • Number of attempts: 4
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