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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2113 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #418 / 472
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove line numbers - 786 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #139 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easier Align - 449 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 465
  • Position: #94 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 406 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #74 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #198 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 8
Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: #292 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 34
  • Position: #6519 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1011 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1350 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2384 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #450 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 6
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