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Played Challenges

Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #15 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #264 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 10
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1030 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #15 / 325
  • Number of attempts: 5
Multiline to Single Line - 747 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #68 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #194 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #623 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1326 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1465 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #473 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #159 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1541 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #267 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #429 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #322 / 892
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #365 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 11
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #692 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3097 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #260 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 268 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #116 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #228 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1922 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #285 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1097 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: #175 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #334 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #80 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 5
change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #139 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #489 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1390 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #731 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2473 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1838 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 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 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1255 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #313 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #52 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2049 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: #289 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 3
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