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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #277 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1774 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 20
  • Position: #358 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3195 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 6
Stairstep digits - 426 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #46 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 12
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #3969 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 451 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #187 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 10
abcd > a b c d - 310 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #223 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 3
lamb had a little Mary - 659 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #127 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 4
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