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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #344 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #756 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #80 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat a C golf submission - 681 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: #32 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse characters in a line - 847 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #30 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 8
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 251 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #12 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #43 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 7
Remember FizzBuzz? - 829 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #20 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 17
Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #34 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #262 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 4
Deleting folded text - 429 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: 17
  • Position: #13 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 9
Sort and add attributes - 1601 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #312 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 740 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #104 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1757 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: 19
  • Position: #10 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 7
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 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: #47 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #54 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 11
Flodder-challenge - 1510 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #134 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #762 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7722 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #630 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 6
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