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Played Challenges

Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #149 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 567 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #296 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #440 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 2
Capitalize the Names - 412 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #48 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2050 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #35 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #497 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #982 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2068 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #243 / 508
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1133 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3182 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #515 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1872 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 1
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