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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 671 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #106 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to single level - 1737 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #89 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rearrange array to one line - 807 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #110 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy punctuation - 684 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #102 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting text - 329 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #41 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove line numbers - 778 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: 41
  • Position: #175 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #367 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #223 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #356 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #199 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 629 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: #71 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 6
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