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Played Challenges

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #47 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2146 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #262 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 3
HS Final exam vimgolf - 913 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #181 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #73 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #762 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 27
  • Position: #327 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 23
  • Position: #2812 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #190 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #695 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #714 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #760 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #488 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #57 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 6
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1253 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: 30
  • Position: #182 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1666 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #499 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3943 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #594 / 893
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #407 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1010 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2744 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #193 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 3
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