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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #347 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #141 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

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

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #107 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #188 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #74 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #219 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #333 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #452 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #159 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1575 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: 25
  • Position: #324 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1043 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #217 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3724 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #552 / 800
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1309 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #280 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12925 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2576 / 3722
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7091 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #868 / 1737
  • Number of attempts: 2
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