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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 864 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #38 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #96 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1022 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #221 / 391
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1079 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #173 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #45 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #72 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 compat - 652 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #96 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #101 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 561 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #81 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 600 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: #42 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #46 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 517 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #61 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 646 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #108 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 644 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #106 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #549 / 651
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #339 / 611
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 721 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #130 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 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: 24
  • Position: #319 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 1184 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #132 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #568 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1490 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #256 / 377
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2808 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #728 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 3
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