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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1108 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #35 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 4
Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #25 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #11 / 336
  • Number of attempts: 13
Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #73 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 25
  • Position: #161 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #58 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #105 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #23 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #171 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat long lines - 361 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #10 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #57 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #511 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 8
The holy-grail may help - 377 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #104 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #179 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #215 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 6
Jakub Arnold
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Computer Science student at Charles University

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