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Played Challenges

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #131 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 6
Plotting some variables in python - 1567 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #156 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1336 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #165 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #351 / 1072
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #267 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2234 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #955 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #389 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 5
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