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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 859 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #161 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5103 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #193 / 1663
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 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: 43
  • Position: #165 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 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: #109 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 557 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #46 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 6
Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 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: 9
  • Position: #201 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #56 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat a C golf submission - 631 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: 25
  • Position: #15 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse characters in a line - 819 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: 12
  • Position: #3 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 809 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #6 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 10
Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #26 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 14
Get rid of html tags - 453 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #91 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #94 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 6
Deleting folded text - 408 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: 20
  • Position: #64 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1569 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #137 / 608
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add fold markers to a .c file - 693 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #31 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 10
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1717 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: #80 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 1155 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: #14 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3983 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #91 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1466 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #7 / 374
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 13517 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1065 / 3876
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7584 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #846 / 1872
  • Number of attempts: 4
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