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Played Challenges

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3763 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #346 / 807
  • Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1343 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #169 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #821 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #684 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 1
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