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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #61 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1173 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1094 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: #77 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #43 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 330 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 132
  • Position: #79 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #66 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #114 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 569 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #81 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 583 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #141 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 278 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 129
  • Position: #65 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1419 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #15 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 332 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #48 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 611 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: #14 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 535 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #5 / 253
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1111 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #145 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 1
Linear congruential generator - 157 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #40 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 847 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #178 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #203 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 829 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 91
  • Position: #185 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #6 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 21
  • Position: #71 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 39
  • Position: #154 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
  • Position: #300 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 43
  • Position: #149 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #797 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 3
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