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Played Challenges

Data reformat - 251 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 43
Position: #22 / 58
Number of attempts: 6

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 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: #38 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 712 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 159
Number of attempts: 6

Capitalize the Names - 328 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #9 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Yo To Hello - 1074 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #32 / 494
Number of attempts: 1

C# data class to F# record - 56 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

Best score: 63
Best player score: 63
Position: #3 / 14
Number of attempts: 7

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1053 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: 21
Position: #12 / 213
Number of attempts: 11

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: 28
Position: #4400 / 7301
Number of attempts: 3

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 842 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #213 / 244
Number of attempts: 4

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: #38 / 190
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 135 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 47
Number of attempts: 5

Add text at some column - 147 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #37 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #324 / 1247
Number of attempts: 5

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: #176 / 1489
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1508 / 3811
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1023 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #197 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Aliases for cd - 820 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 57
Position: #112 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2441 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 564
Number of attempts: 7

Unsemantic linewrapping - 858 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #71 / 217
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #728 / 1863
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #443 / 826
Number of attempts: 9

Add string initializers to an enum - 834 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 245
Number of attempts: 5

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 235
Number of attempts: 9

Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1283 / 3022
Number of attempts: 6

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: #187 / 501
Number of attempts: 8

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #399 / 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: 12
Position: #113 / 784
Number of attempts: 7

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #1224 / 1844
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #65 / 691
Number of attempts: 6

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: #163 / 630
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1381 / 4140
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #259 / 575
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #224 / 1243
Number of attempts: 13

ninja substitution - 1328 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #221 / 254
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #551 / 2067
Number of attempts: 9

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: #278 / 649
Number of attempts: 5

Line under headers - 1933 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 31
Position: #291 / 476
Number of attempts: 4

Increment each number - 958 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 237
Number of attempts: 9

Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #71 / 255
Number of attempts: 12

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 434
Number of attempts: 11

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #483 / 1176
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2683 / 4133
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #2581 / 3646
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2488 / 3930
Number of attempts: 6

Alphabet soup - 402 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 98
Number of attempts: 7

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: 13
Position: #630 / 3471
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6223 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 37
Position: #539 / 1532
Number of attempts: 3

Valdimar
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Icelandic programmer that loves music, math, science, art design, games, languages, philosophy, hearty debates and critical thinking.