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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #119 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
  • Position: #88 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1638 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #78 / 606
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1636 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: #58 / 432
  • Number of attempts: 6
Braces or Brackets? - 1069 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #238 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3778 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #64 / 810
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 13068 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #987 / 3757
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7211 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #19 / 1771
  • Number of attempts: 11
Sylvain
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