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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1796 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1258 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #38 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #386 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #984 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #628 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #106 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 7
html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #9 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2857 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #294 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #26 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #469 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2241 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #377 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 5
Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #57 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 252 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #60 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 386 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #85 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1185 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #133 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #144 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #873 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2394 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1736 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #11 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 9
ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #22 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 8
Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #55 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 456 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #85 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 225
  • Position: #98 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #36 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 683 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #71 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #17 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 1096 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #60 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #267 / 829
  • Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1401 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #100 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #767 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #1385 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 1
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