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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 389 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: 59
  • Position: #41 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1149 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #104 / 312
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1037 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #29 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 14
delete swap - 1098 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #175 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix the shell script! - 1731 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #85 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 10
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1356 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #146 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 748 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #93 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 4
Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #148 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 1874 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #100 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 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: #168 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #426 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #130 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 7
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