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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 822 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #150 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #662 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1507 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #130 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #29 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 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: #71 / 435
  • Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 1074 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #11 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #82 / 816
  • Number of attempts: 14
Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #5 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #115 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7252 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #48 / 1790
  • Number of attempts: 9
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