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Played Challenges

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #55 / 1736
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #62 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 4
formatted text to markdown - 183 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

  • Best score: 70
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #19 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #85 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 4
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 156 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #17 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #53 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #338 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 4
Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #119 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #15 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 4
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