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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4072 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #431 / 1008
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 1996 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: 21
  • Position: #149 / 400
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 775 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #110 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 3
Multiline to Single Line - 514 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #65 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 587 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #72 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1042 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #194 / 477
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32879 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: 23
  • Position: #2716 / 7266
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5946 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #586 / 1459
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18365 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #674 / 3785
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10527 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1505 / 2986
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3450 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #771 / 1119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11119 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3059 / 4108
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15710 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1209 / 4108
  • Number of attempts: 4
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