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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2113 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #195 / 472
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 582 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #5 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #483 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 1
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 777 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: 65
  • Position: #122 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1613 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 104
  • Position: #351 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fizzbuzz - 614 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 82
  • Position: #102 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #239 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1295 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #159 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #266 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create a diamond comment - 360 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #59 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #237 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 256 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #86 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 492 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #151 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4602 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #556 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #225 / 322
  • 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: #713 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 4
ascii-art diamond - 55 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #13 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 678 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #201 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #212 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 1
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