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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: #190 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #855 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4650 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #291 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #280 / 3022
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1415 / 1844
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #93 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #472 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #37 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 6
Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #17 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #6 / 1243
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 313 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #60 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #81 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 6
Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #46 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #42 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #289 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #130 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #834 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #605 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #385 / 3471
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #128 / 1533
  • Number of attempts: 5
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