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Played Challenges

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: 22
Position: #723 / 7301
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #419 / 1247
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #191 / 3811
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #490 / 1863
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #340 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1091 / 1844
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #328 / 691
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #65 / 630
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #522 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #144 / 689
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2379 / 4140
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #113 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #69 / 1243
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 820 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #166 / 280
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 257 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #23 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Combines all items - 292 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #11 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #97 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7629 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #264 / 2069
Number of attempts: 6

7th Birthday - 185 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #39 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #85 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #34 / 248
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #120 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #17 / 181
Number of attempts: 5

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #68 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 120 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #45 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #306 / 1176
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 757 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #128 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #278 / 436
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #103 / 280
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2509 / 4133
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #255 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #89 / 292
Number of attempts: 7

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: #353 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #377 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2350 / 3930
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1534 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #300 / 432
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #155 / 724
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #282 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 4996 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #896 / 1723
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #476 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 451 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #65 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11865 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1511 / 3472
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 39
Position: #700 / 1533
Number of attempts: 4