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Played Challenges

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 1040 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #184 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Changing date formats - 755 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 132
  • Position: #181 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #322 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #747 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #40 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 7
Remember FizzBuzz? - 829 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #79 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #29 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #240 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 4
Deleting folded text - 429 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: 17
  • Position: #11 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 9
Sort and add attributes - 1601 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #295 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add fold markers to a .c file - 740 entries

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

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #101 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1757 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: #168 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 10
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #43 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #190 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1510 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #184 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2077 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #716 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 6
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