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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2096 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: 6
  • Position: #104 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 8
Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #90 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 17
Fix the shell script! - 2664 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #409 / 620
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #355 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 4
Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #292 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4581 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #475 / 1118
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 24
  • Position: #3135 / 7496
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #526 / 1287
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6381 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1009 / 1558
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4840 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #792 / 1905
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #497 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10930 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1969 / 3090
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #474 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #495 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3970 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #528 / 903
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7991 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #558 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 9
Search and Replace 0 - 5074 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #718 / 1653
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #379 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #90 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 12
Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #616 / 2149
  • Number of attempts: 12
One to Ten - 2243 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #357 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 12
Array transposition - 2456 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #174 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2053 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1603 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1011 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3967 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #199 / 847
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #3631 / 3863
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7550 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #602 / 1862
  • Number of attempts: 5
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