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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33700 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: #70 / 7436
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1908 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #255 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #408 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #150 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10877 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #168 / 3070
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #448 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #799 / 871
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #171 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #379 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 7
Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #134 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #401 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: 13
  • Position: #117 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7933 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1139 / 2134
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #20 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2225 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: #159 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 2
Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #9 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #34 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #69 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 7
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #211 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #72 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #48 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #240 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #116 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 6
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #12 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #774 / 3687
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #589 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 12925 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #370 / 3722
  • Number of attempts: 3
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