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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #129 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #123 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #423 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 22
  • Position: #726 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #704 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #213 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18799 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1812 / 3881
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1679 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1352 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #928 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #608 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #376 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array propagate - 343 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #85 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
  • Position: #203 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 319 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #151 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #533 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2314 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 268 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #91 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 920 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #193 / 219
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #952 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 3
7th Birthday - 210 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: 28
  • Position: #65 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1097 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #210 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #826 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2992 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2154 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3270 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #305 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3017 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 1
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