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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #4143 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #811 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #484 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3693 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 359 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 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 350 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #70 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 214 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #28 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shift down - 238 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #66 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #22 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
Subtraction - 204 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #58 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #889 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #325 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #107 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 197 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 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 485 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #143 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #242 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #283 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 739 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 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 8
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 103 entries

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

  • Best score: 102
  • Best player score: 158
  • Position: #31 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #57 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1326 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
paste indent correction - JS - 124 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: #54 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13644 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1274 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 4
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