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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 870 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #375 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 421 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #143 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 348 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #108 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #196 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #76 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #229 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #372 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1598 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #486 / 617
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 739 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #170 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1754 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: 25
  • Position: #347 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #239 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #597 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1501 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #307 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2693 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #921 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 2
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