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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: 29
  • Position: #4924 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 590
  • Position: #262 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 34
  • Position: #197 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #107 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2273 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #242 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1386 / 3065
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3590 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #382 / 1163
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1174 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 12
Line under headers - 2045 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #466 / 504
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3548 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 5
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