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Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 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: 59
  • Position: #80 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1611 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #143 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #29 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 14
delete swap - 1880 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #175 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #104 / 622
  • Number of attempts: 10
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1685 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #159 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 905 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #104 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 4
Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #184 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #107 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #193 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #431 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #134 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 7
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