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Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1335 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #100 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #95 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #115 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #372 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1109 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #300 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13274 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3083 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 1
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