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Rethink difficulty of word-count

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
bash
Domain
content

Research direction

Start with the linked forum discussion about recovering from the word-count exercise. The issue does not name a repository file, test, or concrete change; determine there what difficulty concern should be addressed and which exercise metadata or tests are relevant. Done means the word-count exercise's difficulty has been reassessed and the agreed project changes are complete.

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Description

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Shell
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117
Forks
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Avg merge
3h 17m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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