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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 768 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #267 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #693 / 1625
  • Number of attempts: 4
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 139
  • Position: #101 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1581 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #198 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 2
Deleting folded text - 360 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #88 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1454 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #242 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 628 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #165 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1511 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #116 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 7
Braces or Brackets? - 1018 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #25 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3677 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #152 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 12
Flodder-challenge - 1267 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #21 / 337
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #670 / 3698
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7008 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #928 / 1712
  • Number of attempts: 4
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