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Played Challenges

Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #299 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #69 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #50 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #17 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 5
Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #152 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 3
Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #76 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hole-in-one - 1024 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #26 / 305
  • Number of attempts: 6
Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #221 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2576 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #217 / 762
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2179 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #380 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5089 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #760 / 1751
  • Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1376 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #154 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1132 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7309 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #633 / 1805
  • Number of attempts: 1
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