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Played Challenges

Changing date formats - 687 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 231
  • Position: #182 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the git merge conflicts - 313 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 94
  • Position: #80 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 126 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #30 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy punctuation - 682 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 269
  • Position: #164 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting text - 329 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #86 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #806 / 841
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2768 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 3
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