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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1923 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #33 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33778 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: #1510 / 7453
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #35 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18797 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #461 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 14
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #209 / 860
  • Number of attempts: 6
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1240 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: 38
  • Position: #232 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #364 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #346 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #212 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #251 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11506 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1329 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #305 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #970 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 11
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1077 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 4
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