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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 - 4479 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #341 / 1097
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2391 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: #269 / 471
Number of attempts: 4

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 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: #118 / 169
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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 / 7420
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #136 / 261
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 - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #778 / 1268
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #41 / 1537
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1526 / 3864
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #102 / 281
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 - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #79 / 579
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 - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #709 / 1893
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #220 / 851
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #43 / 258
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 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 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #434 / 3063
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #394 / 525
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #365 / 1162
Number of attempts: 9

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #499 / 865
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #289 / 1876
Number of attempts: 9

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1347 / 4197
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #207 / 1264
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 - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #529 / 2128
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2219 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 / 672
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #285 / 503
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #137 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #461 / 1190
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #990 / 4180
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1486 / 3683
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1074 / 3963
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 - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1252 / 1748
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 - 12811 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 / 3694
Number of attempts: 3