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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #38 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #918 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #166 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2894 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
  • Position: #169 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #492 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10859 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #136 / 3064
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #195 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 21
  • Position: #448 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #900 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #559 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 984 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #15 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #71 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 6
Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #85 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #283 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 6
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #207 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #721 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #577 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #659 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1131 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3276 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1594 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 4
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