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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 800 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #103 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #70 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 22
  • Position: #122 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 3
Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #81 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1343 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #293 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13015 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3284 / 3745
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1029 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 2
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