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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1616 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 9
Create Leading Zeros - 269 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #16 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #218 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3195 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #49 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #114 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #310 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #56 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 12
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #352 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 19
Sergio Benitez
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