Played Challenges
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: 22
- Position: #1845 / 7295
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4484 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #483 / 1245
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18472 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #945 / 3807
- Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2441 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #42 / 564
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4647 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1369 / 1861
- Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2779 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #376 / 823
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10717 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #875 / 3020
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #38 / 498
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #621 / 1128
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3477 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #52 / 779
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7722 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #140 / 1842
- Number of attempts: 8
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 121 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #11 / 42
- Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 765 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #125 / 218
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1441 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #244 / 441
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 718 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #74 / 169
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2819 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #286 / 629
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11284 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2862 / 4140
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1789 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #233 / 574
- Number of attempts: 9
Basic renumbering - 5484 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #280 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1326 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #33 / 252
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7614 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #476 / 2063
- Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2119 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: #138 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 611 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: 14
- Position: #36 / 196
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 958 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #31 / 237
- Number of attempts: 7
Around the clock - 186 entries
You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #19 / 72
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #153 / 352
- Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 263 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #13 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 332 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #11 / 83
- 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: 20
- Position: #1 / 156
- Number of attempts: 10
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: #30 / 255
- Number of attempts: 11
Array transposition - 2321 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #199 / 434
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15822 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1358 / 4129
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3135 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #385 / 1118
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12786 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1721 / 3928
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4978 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1218 / 1716
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6189 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #708 / 1524
- Number of attempts: 3
Neil Struthers
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