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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 249 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #30 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4883 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #141 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #110 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #500 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1538 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #521 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 5
Greek column realign - 63 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #25 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 2
Test everything! - 213 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #17 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 827 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #13 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 5
increment by column in XML - 167 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #21 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 6
Pretty format for variable declarations - 186 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #32 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 439 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #28 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #31 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shift down - 237 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #32 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #527 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #202 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #57 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2067 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #262 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1235 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #86 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1947 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2196 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #324 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
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