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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: 28
  • Position: #4465 / 7425
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #129 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #59 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18749 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1292 / 3867
  • Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #228 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #40 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10872 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #400 / 3067
  • Number of attempts: 8
Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #354 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3592 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #725 / 1164
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3831 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #293 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7909 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #523 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2992 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #968 / 2132
  • Number of attempts: 5
Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #32 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2045 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #229 / 504
  • Number of attempts: 5
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #271 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1920 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1788 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #613 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 4
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