Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #73 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #98 / 211
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1674 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 212 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 137
- Position: #49 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
formatted text to markdown - 183 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
- Best score: 70
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #8 / 66
- Number of attempts: 7
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #22 / 210
- Number of attempts: 4
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 96 entries
Same class but reverse!
- Best score: 80
- Best player score: 144
- Position: #31 / 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Alphabetize the directory - 283 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #42 / 99
- Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #26 / 179
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #191 / 639
- Number of attempts: 5
Java Array2List - 225 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 115
- Position: #57 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1001 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #204 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #102 / 512
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #71 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #100 / 177
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #58 / 558
- Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #76 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #89 / 172
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 20
- Position: #29 / 384
- Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 884 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #184 / 288
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #386 / 736
- Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #180 / 311
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2902 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #1031 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 2
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