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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #115 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 2
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 661 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: #40 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 7
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #65 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #198 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #37 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fill in the chess board - 980 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 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 6
Learn to ask for :help - 596 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #20 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 6
Write Hello World in the 'i use arch btw' -programming language - 38 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: #13 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #108 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 2
Turn the x - 356 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #16 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #368 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #747 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #740 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #67 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #217 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 467 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #98 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 343 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #16 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 3
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I like arrows, street signs, and citrus. I attempt to place lines that sometimes resemble cute things.

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