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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #54 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4531 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #343 / 1107
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #271 / 481
Number of attempts: 4

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #120 / 172
Number of attempts: 3

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: 22
Position: #2079 / 7442
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #136 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #9 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #781 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #41 / 1546
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1527 / 3870
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #103 / 283
Number of attempts: 5

add line and index - 100 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 56
Position: #20 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 47
Position: #91 / 155
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #80 / 583
Number of attempts: 7

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #59 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #709 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #220 / 857
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #43 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #154 / 251
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #434 / 3072
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #395 / 530
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #365 / 1169
Number of attempts: 9

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #503 / 876
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #289 / 1881
Number of attempts: 9

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1347 / 4209
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #207 / 1269
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #120 / 267
Number of attempts: 13

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #529 / 2138
Number of attempts: 6

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: #257 / 677
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2059 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #287 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #137 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #461 / 1191
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #990 / 4189
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1486 / 3689
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1078 / 3969
Number of attempts: 5

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #38 / 108
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1253 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 98
Position: #37 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #617 / 3739
Number of attempts: 3