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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5036 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #1618 / 1641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 642 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #210 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 592 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #245 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 798 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #236 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 438 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #199 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1545 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #571 / 597
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1683 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: 44
  • Position: #418 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13332 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #3517 / 3827
  • Number of attempts: 1
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