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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 565 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #115 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #20 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 13
Append semicolon after expressions - 939 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #16 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove noise from HTTP log - 657 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #32 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 4901 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #119 / 1698
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort the cardinal numbers - 268 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #28 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 2
expand a list comprehension (python) - 276 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #43 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1763 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #4 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 11
Change the content of a string - 1341 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #77 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 682 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: #4 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 11587 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #88 / 3400
  • Number of attempts: 12
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5968 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #19 / 1474
  • Number of attempts: 6
John Piasetzki
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