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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1374 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #83 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to one line - 638 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #70 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy punctuation - 511 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #56 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 2
Populate 3D bone names list - 629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #101 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 5
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 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: 66
  • Position: #132 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fizzbuzz - 575 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #86 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 117
  • Position: #255 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2546 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #271 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 3
Visual block training - 1075 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #158 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #246 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #390 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3724 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #409 / 800
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12925 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2011 / 3722
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7091 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #1139 / 1737
  • Number of attempts: 3
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