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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 855 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #171 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5072 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #196 / 1652
  • Number of attempts: 6
It's a factor - 104 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 150
  • Position: #38 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #221 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 811 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: 18
  • Position: #194 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 805 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #122 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1758 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #99 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 8
Deleting folded text - 405 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: 25
  • Position: #104 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1560 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #141 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 692 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: #32 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1700 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: #84 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3967 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #624 / 847
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #130 / 3863
  • Number of attempts: 6
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