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Played Challenges

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: #1586 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #301 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 9
  • Position: #90 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
On Being Stylish - 98 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #23 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #610 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 138 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #80 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #51 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign numbers to fields - 122 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #47 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #187 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 2
Binary and Increment - 78 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #6 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #7 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 18
VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #263 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #127 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 4
Lisp Condense - 484 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #87 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 3
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #123 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 556 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #10 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 11
Sort by your own sum - 97 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #27 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #257 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #283 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiplication table. - 240 entries

Create a multiplication table.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #29 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1091 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #486 / 680
  • Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #44 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #690 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 1
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