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Played Challenges

Find fix point of cos - 1306 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #95 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #262 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1062 / 1615
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse characters in a line - 750 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #219 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat most common surnames - 691 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #100 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 712 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 94
  • Position: #170 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #196 / 577
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #238 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #236 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 957 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #167 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #372 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 9
Flodder-challenge - 1219 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #200 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1899 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6825 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #1151 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 6
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