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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2077 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #302 / 462
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove line numbers - 777 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #19 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 9
Changing around text with citations - 361 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #73 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #486 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #256 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #60 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lowercase first characters - 499 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: 37
  • Position: #84 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #780 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 1
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