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Played Challenges

Put a cross in the square - 228 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #47 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2115 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #258 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 3
HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 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: #178 / 238
  • 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 - 4547 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #756 / 1109
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: #322 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33739 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: #2802 / 7446
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #186 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6352 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #694 / 1548
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18766 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #714 / 3873
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #760 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #487 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #57 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 6
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 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: #176 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1662 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #493 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3876 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #582 / 877
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #407 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1008 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16034 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2739 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #191 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 3
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