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Played Challenges

Change to ascending order - 487 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #4 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 426 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #14 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate an entry for each month - 369 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 97
  • Position: #79 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
Move to corresponding lines - 307 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #25 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rearrange array to one line - 807 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #21 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 12
Find anomalies - 163 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #13 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 6
New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #18 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 8
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 663 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #27 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 12
months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #45 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quicksort - 2095 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #276 / 465
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #316 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #744 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 4
Going underground.... - 357 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #14 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 6
Split the words - 372 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #39 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1614 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inconsistent real estate paste - 217 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #26 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 465 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #43 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sorting paragraphs - 556 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #28 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 12
Hatsuyume - 556 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #23 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 13
Context insensitive completion 0 - 594 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #129 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #166 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 806 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: 12
  • Position: #27 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat most common surnames - 795 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #71 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #238 / 639
  • 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: #292 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #158 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #48 / 841
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #734 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 4
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