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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #270 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1764 / 3072
  • 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: 20
  • Position: #349 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3180 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 6
Stairstep digits - 398 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #46 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 12
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #3945 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #187 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 10
abcd > a b c d - 297 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #217 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 3
lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #123 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 4
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