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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33612 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: 25
  • Position: #3295 / 7416
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18722 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2172 / 3860
  • 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: 9
  • Position: #1708 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10850 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2082 / 3062
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #622 / 1161
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7904 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1524 / 1875
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2640 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #483 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1076 / 2125
  • Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #71 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #63 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #193 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1068 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2623 / 4177
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10660 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2296 / 3681
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2430 / 3961
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12760 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1663 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

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