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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4650 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #952 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #583 / 736
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #547 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3186 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Refactoring useless Method away - 91 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #30 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 3
increment by column in XML - 146 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #48 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 394 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #40 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3067 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #901 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1959 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #469 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #134 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1151 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #161 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2991 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 985 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #289 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 76 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #16 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1359 / 1722
  • Number of attempts: 1
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