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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1613 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #131 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #125 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #425 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #726 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #710 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #213 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1822 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4883 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1690 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1361 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #933 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #613 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2923 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #380 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array propagate - 354 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #88 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #203 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 328 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #153 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #537 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2324 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #93 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #197 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #957 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 3
7th Birthday - 237 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #69 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1134 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #213 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #832 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3011 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2164 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3284 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #309 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3106 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 1
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