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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 570 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #89 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 3
Inverting Lines - 1924 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #330 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 7
Modernise code - 1410 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #125 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 8
HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #19 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: #3081 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1364 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #102 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #533 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2240 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: 21
  • Position: #593 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #290 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 6
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