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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 825 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #169 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #946 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #174 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #181 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1477 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #119 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #355 / 816
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flodder-challenge - 1375 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #254 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13143 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2918 / 3777
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7259 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #725 / 1791
  • Number of attempts: 1
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