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Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 398 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #74 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 706 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 85
  • Position: #154 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1560 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 113
  • Position: #358 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #526 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3577 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #712 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1220 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #276 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12632 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3124 / 3655
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6836 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #1515 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 1
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