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Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #766 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #199 / 655
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: 14
  • Position: #211 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 8
Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #130 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #660 / 816
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #20 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 16
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7258 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1035 / 1790
  • Number of attempts: 5
Gary Rennie
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