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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1508 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #121 / 396
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 839 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #115 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1114 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #408 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #696 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #213 / 1517
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1801 / 3842
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4751 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1664 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1344 / 3044
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #918 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #604 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #373 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #81 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #203 / 744
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 305 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: #144 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #529 / 695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2307 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #90 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #184 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #941 / 2100
  • Number of attempts: 3
7th Birthday - 186 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: #62 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 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: #206 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #821 / 1186
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2971 / 4161
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2139 / 3666
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3248 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #299 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2868 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 1
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