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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: #4599 / 7425
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4627 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1001 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18749 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1598 / 3867
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4810 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1152 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #537 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #532 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3748 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1119 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #65 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1228 / 2132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #237 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #346 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #156 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #96 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #125 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #650 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2518 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #821 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #936 / 3685
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #350 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2311 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1522 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7023 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #1121 / 1720
  • Number of attempts: 1
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