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Played Challenges

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #391 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2103 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #169 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4479 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #612 / 1097
  • Number of attempts: 2
xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #45 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #133 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #9 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 3
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: 40
  • Position: #183 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: #2144 / 7421
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 30
  • Position: #188 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #43 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #962 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6312 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #709 / 1537
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1967 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 6
Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #29 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #105 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #520 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 8
Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #356 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #397 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #535 / 1876
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1378 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
  • Position: #23 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #265 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2712 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 1
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