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Played Challenges

Even and Odd - 35 entries

separate the even numbers from the odd numbers

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 8
Modifying .XCompose - 23 entries

You just wrote some lines in .XCompose, but now you want the compose sequences to be more verbose. Change the compose sequence for each Greek letter to its name.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #6 / 6
  • Number of attempts: 6
hexagram binary tree - 42 entries

generate the binary tree that represents all possible hexagrams found in the book of changes (易经)

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #5 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 796 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #34 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 9
Delete the last function argument in python. - 550 entries

Delete the last function argument in this python script.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #99 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 3
Flip All Bits - 355 entries

Perform a bitwise NOT operation on each bit, meaning that bits that are 0 become 1, and those that are 1 become 0.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #24 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 11
Markdown Blog Editing - 478 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #60 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #768 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #14 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #56 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2128 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #721 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Modifying .XCompose - 23 entries

You just wrote some lines in .XCompose, but now you want the compose sequences to be more verbose. Change the compose sequence for each Greek letter to its name.

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