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Played Challenges

Format the CSS - 165 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #39 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4579 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #562 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2477 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #237 / 493
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1037 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #268 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #38 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33940 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: 24
  • Position: #3103 / 7494
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #891 / 1287
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #610 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18861 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1732 / 3895
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1264 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10929 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1520 / 3089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #504 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #887 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1543 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #417 / 468
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2934 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #485 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5056 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #876 / 1647
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #59 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11562 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2491 / 4235
  • Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 408 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #44 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 3
Text to HTML Table - 197 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #48 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 410 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #138 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 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: 21
  • Position: #165 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1050 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple addition - 337 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #69 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #157 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #17 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 109 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #50 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1309 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 996 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #235 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 145 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #55 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2243 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: 15
  • Position: #546 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2456 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #185 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #115 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #286 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 354 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #97 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16155 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1760 / 4212
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #992 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #364 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10731 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2230 / 3706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13013 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2702 / 3980
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #480 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1037 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Satisfy the go linter - 2477 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Format the CSS - 165 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

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