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Played Challenges

Column wise pasting - 211 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #17 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 3
Deleting text - 277 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #22 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
Case matching substitution - 56 entries

Swap every "lorem" for "ipsum", keeping the letter cases the same.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #12 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse even lines - 33 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #5 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror image - 95 entries

Add the second eye

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #14 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find anomalies - 157 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #10 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 6
Quicksort - 2035 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #119 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #155 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #301 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #729 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #279 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #90 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #150 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #174 / 814
  • Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #335 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2012 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7228 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #1420 / 1777
  • Number of attempts: 1
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