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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: #1342 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 641 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #39 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #313 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #244 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 687 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 757 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #95 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 4
readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #15 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 189 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #22 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 224 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #54 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #82 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1531 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #95 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 12
  • Position: #179 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #535 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1531 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #228 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 657 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #9 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate English Alphabets - 451 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #96 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 330 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #67 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 365 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #11 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #181 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1257 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #86 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 754 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #30 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1 / 3469
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6219 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #313 / 1530
  • Number of attempts: 1
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