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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4479 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #345 / 1097
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2391 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: 22
  • Position: #212 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33614 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: 27
  • Position: #3950 / 7418
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #648 / 1537
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18725 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #456 / 3862
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2493 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #131 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #386 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10851 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #860 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #630 / 1161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3815 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #182 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7904 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #647 / 1875
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #101 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #135 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1144 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #101 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7904 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #391 / 2126
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2212 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: #133 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #167 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #46 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #84 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #10 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #25 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #25 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #774 / 4179
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1296 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12930 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1681 / 3962
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 687 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #21 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12787 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1770 / 3688
  • Number of attempts: 3
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