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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4197 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #829 / 1035
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2041 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: 40
  • Position: #384 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 829 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #259 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1067 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #460 / 490
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1048 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #210 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33073 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: 25
  • Position: #3344 / 7295
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6081 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1430 / 1485
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18472 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #679 / 3807
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10717 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #2915 / 3020
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7722 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1654 / 1842
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11284 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #3996 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15822 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3862 / 4129
  • Number of attempts: 1
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