I was just thinking today that it'd be kinda cool if we had a friendly and informal programming contest amongst ourselves. We could all come up with what we'd work on, but it would, of course, have to be something where we could develop a meaningful way to measure programs against each other. For example, the time it takes to complete a case, number of cases solved per minute, or if it's an AI for a game or something, maybe we could do a tournament.
We could even do a series of programs or something.
Here are some ideas:
Sudoku solver
AI for simple games (ie, checkers, othello, etc)
Captcha solving
Anagrams
Automated theorem prover
Would anyone be interested in this? I think it'd be fun!