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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 43
  • Position: #7232 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 930 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #259 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1232 / 1275
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #464 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #574 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #794 / 859
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2285 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #524 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1165 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #879 / 882
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11497 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3628 / 4215
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7967 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #2037 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2234 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: 22
  • Position: #604 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 2068 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #504 / 508
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1036 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #192 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #4024 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3420 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3276 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alvaro Melendez
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