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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #161 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #193 / 1637
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1007 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: #164 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 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 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #46 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 6
Context insensitive completion 0 - 592 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: #200 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #56 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse characters in a line - 789 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 782 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #6 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 10
Remember FizzBuzz? - 758 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #25 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 14
Get rid of html tags - 423 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #88 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #94 / 628
  • Number of attempts: 6
Deleting folded text - 388 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: #62 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #137 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add fold markers to a .c file - 683 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 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 10
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 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: #77 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 1096 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 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #87 / 829
  • Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1401 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #7 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1048 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #829 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 4
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