Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #73 / 352
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 574 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #93 / 204
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1643 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 188 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 137
- Position: #48 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
formatted text to markdown - 180 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
- Best score: 70
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #8 / 65
- Number of attempts: 7
Line Zipper - 443 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #21 / 206
- Number of attempts: 4
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 84 entries
Same class but reverse!
- Best score: 80
- Best player score: 144
- Position: #30 / 36
- Number of attempts: 2
Alphabetize the directory - 269 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #41 / 97
- Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 436 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #26 / 175
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #181 / 625
- Number of attempts: 5
Java Array2List - 218 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 115
- Position: #55 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 924 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 612
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 759 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #196 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #102 / 488
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 180 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #71 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 589 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #92 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #58 / 521
- Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1191 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #76 / 484
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 487 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #79 / 158
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #29 / 347
- Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 710 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #162 / 253
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2980 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #344 / 664
- Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 901 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #157 / 270
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2782 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6015 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #978 / 1482
- Number of attempts: 2
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