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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 652 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #71 / 376
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #66 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse and double space - 475 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #27 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 5
Format the output - 143 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: #15 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #350 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat most common surnames - 613 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #85 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 5
Remember FizzBuzz? - 634 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #44 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 9
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #367 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 9
Deleting folded text - 325 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: #47 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #75 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1265 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: #28 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #185 / 699
  • Number of attempts: 15
Simple text editing with Vim - 11966 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #844 / 3503
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #1446 / 1561
  • Number of attempts: 1
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