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Played Challenges

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 378 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #85 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 4
RUST match with enum for Coin - 186 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 131
  • Position: #44 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1420 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #311 / 328
  • 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: 19
  • Position: #139 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 27
  • Position: #128 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 5
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1037 / 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: 37
  • Position: #439 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #290 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 5
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #167 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 28
  • Position: #4541 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 19
  • Position: #1247 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2588 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #197 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #562 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
  • Position: #551 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #699 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #377 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #472 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #457 / 892
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1286 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3160 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1121 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2241 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: 23
  • Position: #628 / 682
  • 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: 37
  • Position: #417 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2026 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2869 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1864 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1911 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 4
Kapildev Neupane
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#SoftwareEngineer at Producement. Computer Engineering graduate from Pulchowk Campus.

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