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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4532 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #702 / 1107
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: 35
  • Position: #416 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1007 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #278 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #251 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 14
  • Position: #894 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2573 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #754 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #657 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1035 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 17
  • Position: #294 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1069 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #402 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1889 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
  • Position: #544 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #297 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #663 / 1079
  • 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: #40 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1628 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
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