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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #1769 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #482 / 1275
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1883 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #250 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #149 / 859
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2097 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #612 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #249 / 882
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #85 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #96 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #34 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #26 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2838 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1846 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #224 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1070 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #95 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #463 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2234 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #474 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1036 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #134 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 847 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #127 / 406
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 978 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #66 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #860 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2386 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #987 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1770 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 3
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