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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #207 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 9
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #202 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 7
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #645 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #711 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1686 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #39 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2773 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #111 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 10
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #661 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 8
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #308 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #55 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 22
Hatsuyume - 582 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #170 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 844 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #156 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 4
Leonard Bereska
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