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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: #96 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5045 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #150 / 1644
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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: 40
  • Position: #16 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 compat - 642 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: 15
  • Position: #105 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sorting paragraphs - 556 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #44 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 635 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #17 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat a C golf submission - 629 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: 26
  • Position: #38 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 795 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #80 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember FizzBuzz? - 787 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #55 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 6
Get rid of html tags - 441 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #76 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #67 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 20
  • Position: #58 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #94 / 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: 30
  • Position: #16 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #53 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 38
  • Position: #80 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 8
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #59 / 841
  • Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #85 / 369
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13423 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #60 / 3848
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7514 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #9 / 1850
  • Number of attempts: 11
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