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Played Challenges

Modernise code - 1208 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #171 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4290 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #82 / 1052
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 2108 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: #247 / 427
  • Number of attempts: 7
xrandr outputs and dashes - 632 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: #105 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 11
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1058 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: 27
  • Position: #112 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #2304 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 11
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6141 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #369 / 1500
  • Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #716 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 16
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #764 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10744 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #690 / 3030
  • Number of attempts: 7
Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #18 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 11
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #467 / 1134
  • Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7782 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #412 / 1853
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1454 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1795 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #270 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1350 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #127 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #581 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 6
Line under headers - 1959 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #80 / 483
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reorder the groups - 1128 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #117 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2001 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3291 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1141 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1846 / 3502
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #876 / 1561
  • Number of attempts: 3
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