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Played Challenges

Indentation - 544 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #145 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 604 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #101 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1588 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #363 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1530 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: 26
  • Position: #354 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #250 / 794
  • Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1282 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #187 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2343 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7023 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #1533 / 1720
  • Number of attempts: 2
Jordi Romero
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Computer Science student and freelance developer.

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