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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1802 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #31 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 10
Copy punctuation - 727 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #4 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 7
New teacher - 1494 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #4 / 312
  • Number of attempts: 15
months to html list items - 1135 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #33 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 19
Quicksort - 2098 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: 6
  • Position: #117 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 10
EDN reformat - 1217 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #75 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 16
Remove line numbers - 779 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #67 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 6
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 580 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #211 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #238 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 10
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 905 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #56 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 8
Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #50 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 15
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 858 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #308 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #741 / 1662
  • Number of attempts: 6
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #41 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 7
Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #27 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 14
Reformat a C golf submission - 631 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: 28
  • Position: #72 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reverse characters in a line - 819 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: 13
  • Position: #97 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 6
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 225 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #7 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 17
Reformat most common surnames - 809 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #37 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 13
Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #18 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 19
Get rid of html tags - 453 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #23 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1764 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #226 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 3
Deleting folded text - 406 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #24 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1568 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #282 / 607
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add fold markers to a .c file - 693 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #93 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 11
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1710 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: 20
  • Position: #156 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 8
Braces or Brackets? - 1151 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #38 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 14
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #40 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1466 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #126 / 374
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2035 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #819 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 8
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