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Search and Replace 0 - 5032 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #769 / 1639
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #199 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: #212 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 8
Compile C - 442 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #131 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3904 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #677 / 835
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13324 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 / 3824
  • Number of attempts: 16
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7463 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1056 / 1836
  • Number of attempts: 5
Gary Rennie
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