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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 474 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #123 / 158
Number of attempts: 3

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #82 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4593 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #698 / 1120
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: 38
Position: #446 / 494
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #304 / 329
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 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: 35
Position: #159 / 175
Number of attempts: 3

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #215 / 535
Number of attempts: 4

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: 31
Position: #157 / 234
Number of attempts: 6

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: 39
Position: #7128 / 7501
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 47
Position: #260 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #181 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1107 / 1290
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 27
Position: #1494 / 1559
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 37
Position: #3801 / 3898
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 83
Position: #285 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 908 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 222
Position: #154 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 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: 13
Position: #192 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #746 / 1909
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 33
Position: #809 / 865
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2339 / 3091
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #463 / 540
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #614 / 638
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #440 / 1181
Number of attempts: 5

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #596 / 908
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1478 / 1897
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #371 / 710
Number of attempts: 20

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #514 / 644
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #647 / 766
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #655 / 1662
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1412 / 4240
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #563 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #829 / 1277
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #1898 / 2152
Number of attempts: 7

Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 52
Position: #491 / 514
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #147 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 41
Position: #415 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1011 / 1196
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #3946 / 4216
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #1106 / 1143
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #3437 / 3711
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3195 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 29
Position: #1065 / 1089
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #3181 / 3984
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #689 / 785
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1547 / 1758
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 176
Position: #149 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1764 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #584 / 647
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #433 / 850
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3183 / 3875
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 49
Position: #1440 / 1871
Number of attempts: 1