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Played Challenges

Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 3
Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #26 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 11
Rural Post - 4526 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #211 / 1107
  • Number of attempts: 6
xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 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: #152 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 3
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 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: #62 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 25
  • Position: #3430 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #530 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 10
  • Position: #452 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #773 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 13
Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #99 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1502 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #769 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1115 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3217 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #280 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #628 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #550 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1617 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12994 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2156 / 3738
  • Number of attempts: 2
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