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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #99 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #935 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #163 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #147 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #68 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
Deleting folded text - 386 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: 24
  • Position: #94 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #97 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #132 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #50 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 1054 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #164 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #293 / 804
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #127 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2884 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #801 / 1755
  • Number of attempts: 2
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