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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2104 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #315 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: #2720 / 7425
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6319 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #920 / 1540
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18749 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1952 / 3867
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #154 / 282
  • 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 - 2500 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #346 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #606 / 852
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 31
  • Position: #188 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10872 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1290 / 3067
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #328 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3592 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #957 / 1164
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3831 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #827 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2872 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 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2997 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1878 / 2132
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2220 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 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2339 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2434 / 3685
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 292 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #177 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #126 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2659 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 3
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