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Played Challenges

Fix the Scala Method - 289 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #83 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1423 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #50 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 7
months to html list items - 1110 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #147 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quicksort - 2061 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: 32
  • Position: #368 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 638 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #97 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 9
Remove line numbers - 752 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #189 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 572 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #192 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #448 / 571
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #281 / 478
  • Number of attempts: 5
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #200 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #314 / 717
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 900 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #114 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 3
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