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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1793 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #293 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #360 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2114 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #332 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6332 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #996 / 1545
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #671 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #156 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #590 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1476 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #468 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1580 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #395 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12959 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2145 / 3731
  • Number of attempts: 4
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