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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 389 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #39 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1143 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #101 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1035 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #217 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Substraction (bis) - 403 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #37 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #37 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #122 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #218 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 47
  • Position: #66 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #95 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 926 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #175 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #266 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 780 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #91 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Java to JavaScript - 216 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #25 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #149 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 2
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