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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #2075 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 21
  • Position: #76 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4622 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #505 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #32 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #609 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #54 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 2
add line and index - 100 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #9 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #3 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 10
Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #15 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #199 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1319 / 3065
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #176 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3590 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #739 / 1163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3829 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #294 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #284 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3008 / 4199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2045 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #70 / 504
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #988 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1795 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 1
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