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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #142 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1162 / 1629
  • Number of attempts: 4
fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #18 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #62 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 7
abcd > a b c d - 295 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1603 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #172 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #151 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #226 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 612 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #150 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 776 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #171 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #135 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #218 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #411 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #95 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #125 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 55
  • Position: #177 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1575 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: 23
  • Position: #292 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 1043 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #208 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3727 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #423 / 800
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1309 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #330 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12929 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3413 / 3723
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7099 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1321 / 1741
  • Number of attempts: 1
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