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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #333 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 6
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #472 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #416 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 1
Plotting some variables in python - 1683 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #299 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create a diamond comment - 355 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 149
  • Position: #70 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 348 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #79 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1861 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #343 / 399
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #13 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2168 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #271 / 392
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #167 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 4
Convert Application Output to CSV - 214 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #57 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #275 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 168 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #74 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2243 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: 21
  • Position: #597 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 5
unknown command - 175 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #58 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 6
learn vim in short time - 243 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #117 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #107 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
paste indent correction - JS - 112 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #59 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
Execute immediate SQL - 92 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

  • Best score: 58
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #27 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #182 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #184 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat long lines - 368 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #108 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #133 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
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