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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #317 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
  • Position: #2725 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 15
  • Position: #923 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1952 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #154 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 2
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #95 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #348 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #609 / 856
  • Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 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: 31
  • Position: #188 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1291 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #328 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #961 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #835 / 876
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
  • Position: #387 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2998 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1884 / 2138
  • 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: #247 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2344 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2436 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 297 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #177 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #126 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2677 / 3737
  • Number of attempts: 3
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