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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 848 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #137 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 202 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: #59 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #73 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2600 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #524 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remember FizzBuzz? - 769 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #130 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1545 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #123 / 597
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 684 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #114 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1683 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: #66 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 1123 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #193 / 344
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3904 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #440 / 835
  • Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1425 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #137 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13324 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1031 / 3824
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7463 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #452 / 1836
  • Number of attempts: 9
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