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Played Challenges

Satisfy the go linter - 2485 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: #96 / 495
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33990 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: #2324 / 7510
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6392 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1255 / 1561
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18900 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1344 / 3903
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #706 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5132 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #666 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1465 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #152 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1107 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #301 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1574 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3566 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #456 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13037 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1874 / 3989
  • Number of attempts: 10
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