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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 560 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #15 / 313
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #45 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #73 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #154 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Plotting some variables in python - 1661 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #187 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33695 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: #3390 / 7435
  • Number of attempts: 5
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #28 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6325 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #539 / 1543
  • Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3093 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #124 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10877 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #503 / 3070
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #331 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #506 / 871
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #930 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #292 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2351 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 3
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