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Played Challenges

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #112 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2263 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #480 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #211 / 852
  • 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: 21
  • Position: #38 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 11
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #32 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #367 / 3065
  • Number of attempts: 12
Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #160 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 10
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3590 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #714 / 1163
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3829 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #88 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #253 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #518 / 2129
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2219 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: #231 / 672
  • Number of attempts: 8
Line under headers - 2045 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #153 / 504
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #246 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #64 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #22 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2694 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1468 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1055 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 7
ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 103
  • Position: #50 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1823 / 3698
  • Number of attempts: 2
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