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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 684 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #168 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1332 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #139 / 531
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1377 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #72 / 386
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #56 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 8
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #278 / 737
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1000 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6563 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #50 / 1617
  • Number of attempts: 6
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