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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: #77 / 376
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #134 / 1578
  • Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 444 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: #28 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #141 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 422 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #28 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #144 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1846 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #104 / 486
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 978 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: #229 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 285 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #16 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 432 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #32 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 10
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #24 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 272 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #14 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 5
Context insensitive completion 0 - 493 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #56 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 196 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #72 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #44 / 335
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 576 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #14 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat a C golf submission - 547 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #31 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #60 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #32 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #164 / 699
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #32 / 3502
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #407 / 1561
  • Number of attempts: 5
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