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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 1350 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #68 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 7
Many duplicates - 1489 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #73 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 2
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 401 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #63 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #17 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #87 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 3
formatted text to markdown - 193 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

  • Best score: 70
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #13 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #544 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #871 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #442 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 8
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