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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #770 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4806 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1409 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #593 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #225 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10860 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1046 / 3064
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #317 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 9
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #664 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #821 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #1776 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2920 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #479 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #271 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3527 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2990 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 7
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