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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2005 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #209 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #146 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2557 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #72 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #332 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fizzbuzz - 575 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #38 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 8
Many duplicates - 1451 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #260 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1075 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #77 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #295 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #150 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #100 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python dataclasses - 1192 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #192 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 1
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