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Played Challenges

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 932 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #198 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #49 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2856 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3616 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #823 / 1174
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7956 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1115 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #601 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3120 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2240 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #307 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #195 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3789 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3796 / 3972
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3477 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 2
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