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Played Challenges

Column wise pasting - 256 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #20 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 3
Deleting text - 329 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #26 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 1
Case matching substitution - 72 entries

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

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #14 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse even lines - 42 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #6 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror image - 125 entries

Add the second eye

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #18 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find anomalies - 163 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #10 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 6
Quicksort - 2095 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 / 465
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #156 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #301 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #729 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #279 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 690 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: #91 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 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: #152 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #178 / 841
  • Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #352 / 369
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2031 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #1463 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 1
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