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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2128 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #174 / 388
Number of attempts: 5

Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 82
Number of attempts: 6

Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #137 / 1114
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2450 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 485
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1015 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #113 / 319
Number of attempts: 3

Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #74 / 313
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 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: #35 / 225
Number of attempts: 4

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 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: 18
Position: #19 / 173
Number of attempts: 8

Capitalize the Names - 412 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #13 / 98
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: 21
Position: #10 / 233
Number of attempts: 8

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #2151 / 7454
Number of attempts: 7

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 930 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #34 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

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: #41 / 204
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #327 / 1276
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #168 / 1551
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18798 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #652 / 3880
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #66 / 285
Number of attempts: 8

Aliases for cd - 881 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #26 / 156
Number of attempts: 14

Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #91 / 585
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #747 / 1899
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #242 / 860
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 884 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #54 / 261
Number of attempts: 7

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1240 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: #45 / 257
Number of attempts: 10

Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #539 / 3078
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #196 / 534
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #262 / 635
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #407 / 1173
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #116 / 886
Number of attempts: 7

Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #332 / 1886
Number of attempts: 6

Cool or not? - 841 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #59 / 232
Number of attempts: 7

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #50 / 179
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #69 / 706
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1385 / 4218
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #235 / 1270
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #68 / 268
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #553 / 2144
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2240 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: #298 / 681
Number of attempts: 5

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #3 / 510
Number of attempts: 7

Increment each number - 1041 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #53 / 254
Number of attempts: 5

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: #75 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2430 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #166 / 451
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #623 / 1193
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1033 / 4195
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #287 / 1138
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1526 / 3695
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1109 / 3971
Number of attempts: 6

Alphabet soup - 434 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #6 / 109
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #619 / 1750
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1872 / 3776
Number of attempts: 1