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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 684 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #361 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1480 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 106
  • Position: #224 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #182 / 198
  • 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: 38
  • Position: #3404 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 1
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