What are online challenges?

The main purpose of participating in online challenges is to learn something or to test skills. Besides it is much faster to learn something new, when you have a goal to achieve.
By the way, some people use them to show other people in InterNet, that they know something useful... and thus are better than those who don't.

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CyberArmy - it is the society, members of which want to keep the InterNet free, they want to prove, that Internet can be self-regulated...
SlyFx challenge - if you want to learn something about the JavaScript, CGI and http headers, then this is what you need...
Arcanum - yet another challenge...
Dya-blo - challenge of all your computer-related skills... It includes both programming, javascripts, java, maths, logic, encryption and more...
HackerGames - the site, on which you will find links to all of the existing challenges on the net...