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Played Challenges

Interweave two blocks of text - 692 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #76 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 1
Recursively Palindrome - 290 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #23 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 6
Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #80 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 3
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 258 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

  • Best score: 65
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #15 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #84 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #138 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alphabetize the directory - 331 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #58 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 3
Complete the hex array data - 215 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #55 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 477 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #91 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #500 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 2
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 103
  • Position: #47 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1091 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #193 / 680
  • Number of attempts: 1
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