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New teacher - 1502 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #229 / 315
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #384 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 146 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #29 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 854 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #194 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 769 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #120 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #37 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #551 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #579 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2849 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #92 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1659 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1063 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #114 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 866 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #128 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 408 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #57 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #131 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #142 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #612 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1194 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #387 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #302 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1799 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 3
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