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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 374 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: 70
  • Position: #81 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #166 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1020 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #174 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fizzbuzz - 343 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #54 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 845 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #225 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 2
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #93 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1087 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #299 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 924 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #166 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #363 / 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: 52
  • Position: #104 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1343 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #404 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 745 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #184 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Write Hello World in the 'i use arch btw' -programming language - 29 entries

> "I use Arch btw" is an esoteric programming language based on Brainfuck in which the Brainfuck commands have been replaced with the following keywords: i, use, arch, linux, btw, by, the, way. https://github.com/OverMighty/i-use-arch-btw

  • Best score: 162
  • Best player score: 686
  • Position: #12 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #118 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1102 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #186 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 1871 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #52 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 17
HS Final exam vimgolf - 804 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #189 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 2
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