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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: 28
  • Position: #4435 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 3
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #18 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1376 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2531 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #10 / 102
  • 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: 14
  • Position: #417 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #242 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #190 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 10
Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #282 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #662 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 5
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #108 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 24
  • Position: #548 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2920 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 95 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #60 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 12
  • Position: #227 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #74 / 77
  • 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: 32
  • Position: #252 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #998 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2425 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2997 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1441 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
  • Position: #2318 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 3
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