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Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #422 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4650 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #471 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1441 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #265 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2395 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 820 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #48 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 292 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #54 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 3
7th Birthday - 185 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #16 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #217 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #21 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #292 / 1176
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1676 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #355 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2342 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1050 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #106 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 668 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: 15
  • Position: #110 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #474 / 3471
  • Number of attempts: 2
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