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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 755 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: 50
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #114 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 3
HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #232 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #27 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 11
delete swap - 1818 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #185 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1281 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #120 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #597 / 616
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #239 / 717
  • Number of attempts: 5
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