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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #709 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2476 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: 35
  • Position: #423 / 492
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #284 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #251 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #900 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2584 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #754 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #657 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1043 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #294 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1077 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #403 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1898 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2243 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: 15
  • Position: #548 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #297 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 16
  • Position: #665 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 445 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #41 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1634 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 1
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