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Played Challenges

Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #10 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 7
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #78 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 5
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #231 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 28
  • Position: #70 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #111 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 60
  • Position: #269 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 2
Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #79 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lowercase first characters - 487 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #136 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #127 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 4
CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #35 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #55 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1118 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 8
Indentation - 542 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #136 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3670 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #515 / 788
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6984 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #1606 / 1708
  • Number of attempts: 1
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