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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 848 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #71 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #70 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #27 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 5
Format the output - 146 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #16 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #360 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat most common surnames - 787 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #105 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 5
Remember FizzBuzz? - 767 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #53 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 9
Change the content of a string - 1732 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #434 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 9
Deleting folded text - 388 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #54 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1545 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #75 / 597
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1683 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: 20
  • Position: #37 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3904 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #237 / 835
  • Number of attempts: 15
Simple text editing with Vim - 13321 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #913 / 3823
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7462 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #1658 / 1835
  • Number of attempts: 1
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