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Played Challenges

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #4 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #5 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extend shell script - 134 entries

Just add some more stuff

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #3 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 2
Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #4 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 6
ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #23 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: 25
  • Position: #3267 / 7421
  • Number of attempts: 3
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #40 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #539 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #58 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #18 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #183 / 1876
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 8
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #10 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 6
Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #8 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #234 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #17 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #90 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #43 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 7
Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #6 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 3
Untangle my tail, please! - 60 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #4 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #534 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Extend shell script - 134 entries

Just add some more stuff

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

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