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Played Challenges

Python dataclasses - 629 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #107 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 5
Modernise code - 805 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #86 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 5
swap number pairs - 1409 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #165 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 7
HS Final exam vimgolf - 630 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #128 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4072 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #476 / 1008
  • Number of attempts: 9
Satisfy the go linter - 1996 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #100 / 400
  • Number of attempts: 18
Yo To Hello - 1042 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #298 / 477
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32879 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: 40
  • Position: #6971 / 7266
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5946 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #848 / 1459
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18365 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1520 / 3785
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10527 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1674 / 2986
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3450 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #821 / 1119
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7678 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #429 / 1834
  • Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11119 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1471 / 4108
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7508 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #589 / 2038
  • Number of attempts: 9
Line under headers - 1911 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #76 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 15710 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1402 / 4108
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1579 / 3636
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12721 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1145 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 7
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