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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1638 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #308 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Substraction (bis) - 638 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #89 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Changing around text with citations - 364 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #44 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1489 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #130 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #943 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #1032 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #280 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #293 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1226 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1592 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #211 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1566 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: 18
  • Position: #215 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2511 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #291 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 35 entries

Convert from one format to another

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #9 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #54 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 80 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #14 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 201 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #38 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1069 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #188 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1347 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2239 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1625 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 554 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #143 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #491 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1
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