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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #978 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #608 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #557 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3266 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 3
Refactoring useless Method away - 134 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #35 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
increment by column in XML - 165 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #50 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #40 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3134 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #923 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 16
  • Position: #483 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #134 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #167 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3048 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1040 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #295 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 1
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 111 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #20 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1385 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 1
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