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Played Challenges

Visual block training - 1001 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #90 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #60 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4362 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #349 / 1071
  • Number of attempts: 6
Satisfy the go linter - 2329 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: 20
  • Position: #64 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 1114 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #256 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 22
  • Position: #1415 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #316 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4751 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #9 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #644 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #47 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #105 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 8
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #28 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 3
Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #20 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 7
Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #59 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 7
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: #10 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 6
Land of the Lost - 77 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #18 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #10 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 3
ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #7 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 219 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #7 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2758 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #274 / 3666
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2590 / 3945
  • Number of attempts: 3
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