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Played Challenges

Format the CSS - 158 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #38 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4515 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #556 / 1106
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: 24
  • Position: #232 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1001 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #261 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 731 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #38 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: 24
  • Position: #3086 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #887 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #607 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1724 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1259 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1513 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #502 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #878 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1513 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: 23
  • Position: #410 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #483 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #867 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #59 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2482 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #44 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #45 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 398 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #135 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 893 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: 21
  • Position: #158 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1045 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple addition - 331 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #67 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 987 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #153 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #17 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #50 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1305 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #233 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #53 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2227 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #542 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #184 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #114 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #286 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #95 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1748 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #990 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
  • Position: #364 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2222 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2695 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #480 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1001 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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?

Format the CSS - 158 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

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