There has been great participation to our Codebits challenges this year!

To all you guys awaiting, the Codebits Challenge #5 is now online!

As a reminder, these challenges work as a qualification round for the SAPO Codebits Quiz show. Last year we had great fun, if you want to know how is it like, check the video.

The last codebits quiz had 18 valid answers. The winner is Cláudio Valente,  with an elega^H^H^H esoteric solution using Unicode to include more information per character. Cláudio  managed to get 461 strokes with the following solution:

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As a runner-up we have Luis Neves with 553 strokes, no chinese character was damaged, though:

function epg(n,e,m){x=new XMLHttpRequest();x.open('GET','/services.sapo.pt/EPG/Search?q=Duration:[*+TO+'+(m*60)+']&wt=json&rows=99999');x.onreadystatechange=function(){if(x.readyState==4){r=JSON.parse(x.responseText);d=r.response.docs;h=[];k=0;for(i in d){u=d[i];w=u.StartTime;b=u.ChannelName;if((b.indexOf(n)>-1)){for(j in w){g={c:b,t:u.Title,d:u.Duration/60};g.s=w[j].replace(/T|Z/g,' ').trim();if(g.s.match('^'+e))h[k++]=g}}}h.sort(function(a,b){return(a.s<b.s?-1:1)});for(i in h){y=h[i];o(y.c+' at '+y.s+': '+y.t+'('+y.d+' minutes)\n')}}};x.send()}; 

Please use the comments in this post to discuss the solutions, as always we are open to discuss any detail or question.