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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 28
  • Position: #4138 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #811 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #479 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3692 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 345 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #54 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 344 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #69 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 206 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #26 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shift down - 223 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #64 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 246 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #22 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Subtraction - 201 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #57 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #887 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #322 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 262 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #105 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 187 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #2 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 473 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #140 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #240 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2048 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #280 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #56 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 8
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 92 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

  • Best score: 102
  • Best player score: 158
  • Position: #30 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10752 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #57 / 3713
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1323 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 5
paste indent correction - JS - 114 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #52 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1270 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 4
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