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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #90 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 2
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 459 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #31 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 7
delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #65 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #198 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 748 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #37 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fill in the chess board - 737 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #20 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 6
Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #19 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 6
Write Hello World in the 'i use arch btw' -programming language - 29 entries

> "I use Arch btw" is an esoteric programming language based on Brainfuck in which the Brainfuck commands have been replaced with the following keywords: i, use, arch, linux, btw, by, the, way. https://github.com/OverMighty/i-use-arch-btw

  • Best score: 162
  • Best player score: 276
  • Position: #10 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #108 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 2
Turn the x - 275 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #16 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #367 / 497
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #719 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #740 / 3815
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #67 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #209 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 402 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #87 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 256 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #16 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 3
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