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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4798 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #41 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1517 / 4185
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 555 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2 / 345
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #16 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 2
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #103 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #63 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2014 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #143 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1621 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #179 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 2
Untangle my tail, please! - 60 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #11 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 1
Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #7 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 9
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