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Played Challenges

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #641 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1286 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #338 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #101 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #269 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #3580 / 3849
  • Number of attempts: 1
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