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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 735 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #171 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fill in the chess board - 722 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #101 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #1675 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #473 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #497 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2441 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #173 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4650 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1344 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
  • Position: #114 / 826
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #145 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #220 / 784
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #26 / 1844
  • Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 765 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #83 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #240 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #119 / 630
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2795 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #214 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #161 / 1243
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #443 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
  • Position: #434 / 649
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
  • Position: #94 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 2
Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #65 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 958 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #63 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 718 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #102 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 35
  • Position: #60 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 6
move titles next to url, in quotes - 496 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #44 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #130 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 30
  • Position: #113 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #592 / 1176
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #838 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2350 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1697 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 633 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #13 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #1694 / 3471
  • Number of attempts: 6
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