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Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1121 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 3
constructor - 180 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 115
  • Position: #42 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #6 / 1736
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #50 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #201 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #7 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 9
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #81 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 7
Fix the Haiku - 275 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #87 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 559 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #134 / 200
  • 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: 16
  • Position: #2080 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #415 / 1616
  • Number of attempts: 7
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