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Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #43 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 27
  • Position: #167 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #54 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1599 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: #327 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #880 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 6
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