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Played Challenges

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: #1490 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 12
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1480 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #465 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #40 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #208 / 876
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #74 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 9
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #568 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1157 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #188 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #138 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #404 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #212 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #38 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #291 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #790 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1312 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #932 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #523 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 14
  • Position: #1706 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #164 / 1755
  • Number of attempts: 10
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