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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 611 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #16 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 7
Create json from a .env file - 1303 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #77 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reordering properties - 1042 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #46 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and Tag - 614 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #49 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
Changing date formats - 615 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #63 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 2
YAML to dotenv - 1226 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #46 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 7
Generate an entry for each month - 351 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #4 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 4
Convert plain text into a markdown table - 75 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #8 / 25
  • 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: 35
  • Position: #413 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 6
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