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Played Challenges

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #37 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #381 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #374 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 582 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #170 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1545 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #546 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #29 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12631 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2722 / 3655
  • Number of attempts: 2
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