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Played Challenges

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #490 / 737
  • Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #307 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12296 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #865 / 3583
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6591 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1250 / 1620
  • Number of attempts: 7
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