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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4526 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #237 / 1107
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1001 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #121 / 316
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 731 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 7
Position: #283 / 310
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 29
Position: #4570 / 7442
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1168 / 3870
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1085 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #942 / 3072
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1008 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2007 / 4209
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Position: #125 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 893 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #113 / 214
Number of attempts: 4

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: 12
Position: #57 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1005 / 2138
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #69 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2227 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: #38 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #77 / 400
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #39 / 142
Number of attempts: 5

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: #15 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #549 / 1191
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #133 / 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: 22
Position: #80 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #201 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #66 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #102 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1617 / 4189
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #595 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #306 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #365 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #829 / 3689
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1501 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #283 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #549 / 757
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #184 / 778
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #91 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1183 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #448 / 654
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2018 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #325 / 519
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #298 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2272 / 3737
Number of attempts: 1