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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 822 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #388 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1306 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #443 / 669
  • 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 - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #21 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse characters in a line - 778 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: #230 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 415 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #183 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1659 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #570 / 612
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 386 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: #99 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1507 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #316 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 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: #400 / 435
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #722 / 816
  • Number of attempts: 1
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