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Played Challenges

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #135 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2525 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #525 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #340 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #84 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 19
Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #404 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #284 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #3128 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #169 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #710 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1561 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1680 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #847 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #527 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #981 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3161 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #587 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1096 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #421 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2508 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1866 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 3
Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 3
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