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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1495 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #194 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to one line - 707 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #93 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy punctuation - 570 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #80 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Column wise pasting - 218 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #32 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 2
Deleting text - 277 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #61 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find anomalies - 157 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #34 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1357 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #166 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 636 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #43 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 112
  • Position: #143 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #69 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
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