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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: 8
  • Position: #399 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5045 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1317 / 1644
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2192 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #447 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #224 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 635 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #21 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse characters in a line - 807 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #233 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 21
  • Position: #193 / 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: 32
  • Position: #595 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 25
  • Position: #101 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #324 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 31
  • Position: #409 / 445
  • 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: 37
  • Position: #746 / 842
  • Number of attempts: 1
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