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Played Challenges

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #72 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #43 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #41 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #4 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 101 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #13 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python to Ruby - 196 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #18 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #126 / 737
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #971 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #508 / 1616
  • Number of attempts: 2
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