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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #80 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #138 / 1637
  • Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #18 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #574 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2182 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #464 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #15 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 294 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #81 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #209 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #72 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #110 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: 30
  • Position: #90 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 789 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #39 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 782 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #178 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #279 / 628
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #80 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #195 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 7
Braces or Brackets? - 1096 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #240 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #701 / 829
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #917 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #896 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 3
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