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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4526 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #388 / 1107
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 11
  • Position: #514 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #64 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #415 / 856
  • 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: 22
  • Position: #78 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1075 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #703 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #328 / 876
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #685 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2934 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #213 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #822 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #218 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #215 / 507
  • Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #116 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #131 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #613 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1196 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1811 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #213 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 6
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