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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #476 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4806 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #378 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #357 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #643 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1033 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #187 / 2129
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #11 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #180 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #79 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #17 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #215 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #404 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 76 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #18 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #634 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #964 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #684 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #382 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 3
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