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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #365 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #655 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1725 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1566 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #198 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2135 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 1
For all cases. - 180 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #35 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 351 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #7 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #20 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #728 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 3
Free hyphen! - 199 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #56 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 138 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #27 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII Art - 92 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #56 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2160 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 258 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

  • Best score: 65
  • Best player score: 124
  • Position: #47 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1970 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #431 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 1
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