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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #244 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #85 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 6
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #56 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 391
  • Position: #154 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1809 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #17 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the shell script! - 2606 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #26 / 607
  • Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #185 / 713
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 33
  • Position: #21 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #690 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

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

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

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