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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1802 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #163 / 390
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #414 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #31 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #50 / 232
Number of attempts: 3

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: 22
Position: #2137 / 7442
Number of attempts: 6

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #967 / 1274
Number of attempts: 1

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: 10
Position: #136 / 1546
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #1015 / 3870
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #171 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 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: #69 / 231
Number of attempts: 10

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #727 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #237 / 857
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #48 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

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: 19
Position: #42 / 251
Number of attempts: 11

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #513 / 3072
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #190 / 530
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #393 / 1169
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #323 / 1881
Number of attempts: 8

From argument to object - 1513 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 460
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #49 / 178
Number of attempts: 10

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: 13
Position: #160 / 641
Number of attempts: 9

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #648 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #224 / 701
Number of attempts: 12

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1375 / 4209
Number of attempts: 2

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 42
Position: #31 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #223 / 1269
Number of attempts: 7

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #65 / 267
Number of attempts: 5

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #22 / 163
Number of attempts: 10

Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #7 / 44
Number of attempts: 8

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: #274 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #266 / 507
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #202 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #70 / 265
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #482 / 1191
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1022 / 4189
Number of attempts: 13

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #285 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 586
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1511 / 3689
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1822 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #36 / 108
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #607 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #215 / 804
Number of attempts: 5