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Played Challenges

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #75 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #47 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #41 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #4 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #15 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #19 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #133 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13093 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1015 / 3766
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #532 / 1778
  • Number of attempts: 2
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