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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4236 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #126 / 1042
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #1604 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 6
Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #13 / 190
  • 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: 10
  • Position: #55 / 1489
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1278 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 13
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: 15
  • Position: #493 / 826
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #287 / 3022
  • Number of attempts: 9
Bad Copy Syntax - 1950 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #175 / 501
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #49 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #722 / 1844
  • Number of attempts: 6
Number Sort - 299 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #95 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #181 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7629 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1626 / 2069
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #215 / 649
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 612 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #128 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Put the months in order - 922 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #88 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1352 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1349 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #937 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4996 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #533 / 1723
  • Number of attempts: 4
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