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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4231 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #325 / 1041
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2047 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: #180 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #3889 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #624 / 1489
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #456 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2441 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #127 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2792 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #373 / 826
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #849 / 3022
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #615 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3496 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #165 / 784
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #638 / 1844
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 765 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #98 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 718 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #128 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1144 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1328 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #96 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #391 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2122 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 / 649
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 958 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #161 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 186 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: #43 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 236 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #74 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 332 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #10 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #25 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #774 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1296 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1664 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 606 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #21 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1721 / 3471
  • Number of attempts: 3
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