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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2434 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #408 / 765
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5087 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1372 / 1657
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 675 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #210 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 4
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #66 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #13 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 889 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #243 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #24 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2101 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #118 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #130 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #168 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1141 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #254 / 453
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #263 / 678
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #246 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1356 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #226 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #149 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #64 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1761 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #410 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #1749 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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