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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #44 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 1
Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #14 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #419 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 454 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: #2 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 33
  • Position: #127 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #182 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #486 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #194 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #646 / 803
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12983 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2170 / 3736
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #1353 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 1
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I make computers just accidentally do some crazy programmy looking things.

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