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Played Challenges

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #434 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #171 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1488 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #95 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1630 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: #51 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13039 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2387 / 3751
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7201 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1588 / 1768
  • Number of attempts: 1
John Ford
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Ruby and Scala developer. Badass improviser at @brinkimprov. Connoisseur of military choke-holds.

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