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Played Challenges

Wikitext headings to markdown - 985 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #10 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 7
hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #78 / 699
  • Number of attempts: 5
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #230 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill in the chess board - 933 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #68 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 572 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #110 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 2
Plotting some variables in python - 1605 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: 60
  • Position: #266 / 345
  • Number of attempts: 2
Transpose a python matrix - 848 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #78 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lowercase first characters - 484 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #136 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #127 / 505
  • Number of attempts: 4
CSV to MD format - 404 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #35 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor - 315 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #55 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1118 / 4166
  • Number of attempts: 8
Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #132 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #497 / 758
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #1559 / 1652
  • Number of attempts: 1
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