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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 851 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #56 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1283 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1736 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #475 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1552 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #505 / 599
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1690 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: 25
  • Position: #341 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1138 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #271 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3927 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #612 / 838
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1436 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #296 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13369 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3281 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7480 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #1241 / 1841
  • Number of attempts: 2
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