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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: #293 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #720 / 1625
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse characters in a line - 771 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #23 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 6
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 210 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #6 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 10
Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #33 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 9
Remember FizzBuzz? - 725 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #14 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 9
Get rid of html tags - 400 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #19 / 231
  • 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: #216 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
  • Position: #9 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #270 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 30
  • Position: #45 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #135 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #33 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #166 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1267 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #29 / 337
  • Number of attempts: 12
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: #702 / 3698
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7008 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #175 / 1712
  • Number of attempts: 5
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