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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #33 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 5
imports alignment (python) - 728 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 91
  • Position: #203 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 421 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #142 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #48 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 474 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #111 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1970 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #176 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #693 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1510 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #340 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #879 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #923 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 4
Misha (Mike) Granin
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