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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33600 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: 22
Position: #2106 / 7412
Number of attempts: 6

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 917 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 260
Number of attempts: 6

Get mail address from outlook format - 647 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 203
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #314 / 1267
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #92 / 1536
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #629 / 3858
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1073 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 280
Number of attempts: 6

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: 30
Position: #8 / 155
Number of attempts: 11

Swap values inside brackets - 2488 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 577
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 926 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #63 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4798 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #715 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2870 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #228 / 848
Number of attempts: 3

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: #44 / 258
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10848 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #474 / 3061
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #186 / 522
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3574 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #373 / 1158
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3796 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #104 / 860
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #308 / 1874
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #59 / 703
Number of attempts: 7

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: 13
Position: #155 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11429 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1358 / 4188
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #255 / 588
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #217 / 1263
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #62 / 267
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #538 / 2125
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2209 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: #267 / 669
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #164 / 501
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #46 / 248
Number of attempts: 7

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #67 / 163
Number of attempts: 4

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #163 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 447
Number of attempts: 10

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #468 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1008 / 4175
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1496 / 3679
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1081 / 3960
Number of attempts: 5

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 39
Position: #76 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12717 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #620 / 3673
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6902 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #313 / 1691
Number of attempts: 2