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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2038 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: #233 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 8
Remove line numbers - 747 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #128 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 2
Find fix point of cos - 1432 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #193 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #169 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #85 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #270 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 67
  • Position: #189 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #204 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #40 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 7
Migrated to Postgres! - 338 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #68 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 5
simple replacements - 1829 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #84 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 9
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