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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 474 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #15 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4593 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #267 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: 20
  • Position: #33 / 494
  • Number of attempts: 10
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #15 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 5
Multiline to Single Line - 753 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #68 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #194 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #2216 / 7502
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #626 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1329 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1468 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #475 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 901 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #161 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10934 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1545 / 3092
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #271 / 541
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #429 / 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: 13
  • Position: #326 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #365 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 11
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #695 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3101 / 4243
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #260 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #117 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #228 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1927 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #285 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #176 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #337 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #81 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 5
change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #140 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #489 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1395 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #733 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2479 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1842 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #112 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1259 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #317 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #52 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #292 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 3
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