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Played Challenges

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: #79 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 20
  • Position: #33 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #158 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #272 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1219 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #164 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #885 / 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: 38
  • Position: #594 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 8
Martin Janiczek
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Apple fan. CoffeeScript and Python programmer. Piano player. Personal development enthusiast. Diabetic and Christian. Movie analphabet.

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