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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #99 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5045 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #944 / 1644
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 796 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #172 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 787 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #154 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #68 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 4
Deleting folded text - 401 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #95 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #97 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 690 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #135 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 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: #56 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 1140 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #173 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3952 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #311 / 842
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #136 / 369
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2962 / 3849
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7533 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #835 / 1852
  • Number of attempts: 2
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