AWK

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Students

2,132

Submissions

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Mentoring Discussions

82

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Total Test Runner Runs

21,296

Test Run Pass Rate

20.0% (4255)

Test Run Fail Rate

78.4% (16695)

Test Run Error Rate

1.6% (346)

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Usage statistics

59 active practice exercises

Started

Attempts

Completions

Mentoring requests

Hello World

1,394

2,121 (avg. 1.5)

1,100 (78.9%)

0 (0.0%)

Two Fer

779

5,417 (avg. 7.0)

276 (35.4%)

13 (1.7%)

Reverse String

328

1,449 (avg. 4.4)

201 (61.3%)

7 (2.1%)

Raindrops

176

1,010 (avg. 5.7)

149 (84.7%)

5 (2.8%)

RNA Transcription

135

1,217 (avg. 9.0)

108 (80.0%)

3 (2.2%)

Leap

121

484 (avg. 4.0)

103 (85.1%)

1 (0.8%)

Scrabble Score

73

827 (avg. 11.3)

68 (93.2%)

2 (2.7%)

Hamming

62

805 (avg. 13.0)

55 (88.7%)

1 (1.6%)

Acronym

55

325 (avg. 5.9)

44 (80.0%)

2 (3.6%)

Allergies

45

663 (avg. 14.7)

29 (64.4%)

2 (4.4%)

Pangram

32

222 (avg. 6.9)

30 (93.8%)

2 (6.3%)

Grains

34

285 (avg. 8.4)

29 (85.3%)

3 (8.8%)

Series

33

290 (avg. 8.8)

30 (90.9%)

4 (12.1%)

Resistor Color Duo

34

176 (avg. 5.2)

29 (85.3%)

1 (2.9%)

Largest Series Product

29

465 (avg. 16.0)

24 (82.8%)

2 (6.9%)

ETL

36

550 (avg. 15.3)

27 (75.0%)

2 (5.6%)

Rotational Cipher

25

184 (avg. 7.4)

18 (72.0%)

2 (8.0%)

Queen Attack

24

105 (avg. 4.4)

21 (87.5%)

1 (4.2%)

Matching Brackets

29

287 (avg. 9.9)

24 (82.8%)

2 (6.9%)

Triangle

25

137 (avg. 5.5)

22 (88.0%)

2 (8.0%)

Armstrong Numbers

23

113 (avg. 4.9)

22 (95.7%)

0 (0.0%)

Protein Translation

21

131 (avg. 6.2)

19 (90.5%)

1 (4.8%)

Bob

26

399 (avg. 15.3)

21 (80.8%)

4 (15.4%)

Space Age

22

104 (avg. 4.7)

21 (95.5%)

0 (0.0%)

Secret Handshake

20

82 (avg. 4.1)

19 (95.0%)

2 (10.0%)

Darts

24

69 (avg. 2.9)

21 (87.5%)

2 (8.3%)

Gigasecond

19

106 (avg. 5.6)

15 (78.9%)

0 (0.0%)

Sum of Multiples

20

90 (avg. 4.5)

17 (85.0%)

2 (10.0%)

Prime Factors

19

95 (avg. 5.0)

18 (94.7%)

1 (5.3%)

Beer Song

20

125 (avg. 6.3)

17 (85.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Grade School

16

147 (avg. 9.2)

14 (87.5%)

1 (6.3%)

Robot Simulator

18

256 (avg. 14.2)

14 (77.8%)

0 (0.0%)

High Scores

16

81 (avg. 5.1)

14 (87.5%)

0 (0.0%)

Resistor Color Trio

19

154 (avg. 8.1)

16 (84.2%)

1 (5.3%)

Word Count

26

201 (avg. 7.7)

19 (73.1%)

0 (0.0%)

All Your Base

20

115 (avg. 5.8)

16 (80.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Diamond

19

105 (avg. 5.5)

14 (73.7%)

1 (5.3%)

Pig Latin

21

253 (avg. 12.0)

17 (81.0%)

1 (4.8%)

Roman Numerals

19

46 (avg. 2.4)

15 (78.9%)

1 (5.3%)

Wordy

20

269 (avg. 13.5)

13 (65.0%)

1 (5.0%)

Anagram

15

51 (avg. 3.4)

13 (86.7%)

1 (6.7%)

Kindergarten Garden

16

69 (avg. 4.3)

11 (68.8%)

1 (6.3%)

Tournament

13

110 (avg. 8.5)

10 (76.9%)

1 (7.7%)

Matrix

16

72 (avg. 4.5)

13 (81.3%)

2 (12.5%)

Run-Length Encoding

16

52 (avg. 3.3)

12 (75.0%)

1 (6.3%)

Atbash Cipher

16

68 (avg. 4.3)

13 (81.3%)

0 (0.0%)

OCR Numbers

13

64 (avg. 4.9)

9 (69.2%)

1 (7.7%)

Say

14

78 (avg. 5.6)

11 (78.6%)

1 (7.1%)

Affine Cipher

13

94 (avg. 7.2)

9 (69.2%)

0 (0.0%)

Forth

16

79 (avg. 4.9)

8 (50.0%)

1 (6.3%)

Grep

15

95 (avg. 6.3)

11 (73.3%)

0 (0.0%)

Nth Prime

16

74 (avg. 4.6)

13 (81.3%)

0 (0.0%)

Rectangles

11

37 (avg. 3.4)

7 (63.6%)

1 (9.1%)

Variable Length Quantity

10

66 (avg. 6.6)

6 (60.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Two Bucket

13

55 (avg. 4.2)

5 (38.5%)

1 (7.7%)

Knapsack

15

37 (avg. 2.5)

9 (60.0%)

1 (6.7%)

List Ops

17

68 (avg. 4.0)

11 (64.7%)

1 (5.9%)

Change

15

152 (avg. 10.1)

9 (60.0%)

2 (13.3%)

Automated readability index

8

103 (avg. 12.9)

4 (50.0%)

0 (0.0%)

46 unimplemented practice exercises

Alphametics

Binary Search

Book Store

Bottle Song

Bowling

Clock

Collatz Conjecture

Complex Numbers

Connect

Crypto Square

DOT DSL

Difference of Squares

Dominoes

Error Handling

Food Chain

Go Counting

House

ISBN Verifier

Isogram

Killer Sudoku Helper

Luhn

Meetup

Minesweeper

Nucleotide Count

Palindrome Products

Pascal's Triangle

Perfect Numbers

Phone Number

Poker

Proverb

Pythagorean Triplet

REST API

Rail Fence Cipher

Rational Numbers

Robot Name

Saddle Points

Scale Generator

Sieve

Simple Cipher

Spiral Matrix

State of Tic-Tac-Toe

Sublist

Transpose

Twelve Days

Word Search

Yacht

25 foregone practice exercises

Bank Account

Binary Search Tree

Circular Buffer

Custom Set

D&D Character

Flatten Array

Hangman

Ledger

Lens Person

Linked List

Markdown

Micro Blog

POV

PaaS I/O

Parallel Letter Frequency

React

Resistor Color

SGF Parsing

Satellite

Simple Linked List

Square Root

Strain

Tree Building

Zebra Puzzle

Zipper

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