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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 826 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #100 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1007 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #111 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #173 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1686 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #69 / 621
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1519 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #98 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1654 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: 21
  • Position: #197 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3814 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #670 / 820
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1391 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #131 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #952 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7309 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #343 / 1805
  • Number of attempts: 11
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