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Played Challenges

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #69 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 456 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: #90 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #130 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 508 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #103 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: 13
  • Position: #147 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #229 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #199 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #519 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 8
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