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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1818 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #552 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #36 / 616
  • Number of attempts: 12
Staircase - 152 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 12
swap number pairs - 2146 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #48 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 30
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #739 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 16
From argument to object - 1536 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #144 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 15
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1482 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 5
Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #116 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 6
simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #5 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 8
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