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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1873 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #243 / 401
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #498 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #283 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #734 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #917 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #3755 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2188 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #1754 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3591 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
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