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Played Challenges

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #351 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 26
  • Position: #3657 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #282 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 10
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #772 / 1549
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #3704 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #344 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4818 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1391 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
  • Position: #527 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #913 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #340 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #147 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 9
Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #144 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #339 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2879 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1387 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2227 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: 24
  • Position: #639 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #102 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #136 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #437 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1873 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #563 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 5
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