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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 826 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #249 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #768 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 115 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #30 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7971 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1278 / 2145
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #489 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3480 / 3972
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1264 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: 12
  • Position: #98 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #29 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 3
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