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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1638 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 81
  • Position: #277 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1658 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #229 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fizzbuzz - 614 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 267
  • Position: #164 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
Changing around text with citations - 364 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #49 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
Poorly indented Python comments - 1370 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 199
  • Position: #226 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1489 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #75 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 5
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 661 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #114 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1916 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #130 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1297 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #250 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 309 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 150
  • Position: #63 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill in the chess board - 980 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #135 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 14
Learn to ask for :help - 596 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 177
  • Position: #132 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #112 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 11
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: 38
  • Position: #7059 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18911 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3686 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 964 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #50 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 14
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: #431 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 14
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #217 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1273 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #242 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2691 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #511 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #699 / 1187
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #836 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #1842 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2965 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #507 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 8
One to Ten - 2260 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: 12
  • Position: #205 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 14
Line under headers - 2095 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #439 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1201 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #114 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3387 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1445 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2753 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 4
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