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Played Challenges

Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #437 / 616
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1096 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #166 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #513 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 900 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #250 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lowercase first characters - 490 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: 43
  • Position: #115 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 2
Migrated to Postgres! - 338 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #115 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
RUST match with enum for Coin - 186 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 163
  • Position: #53 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #203 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #73 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #140 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4572 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #864 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #462 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 747 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #273 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #361 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #225 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #122 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 434 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #98 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
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