Questions tagged [tips]
For questions asking for tips on golfing in a specific language, doing well in certain challenge tag, or improving a particular piece of code.
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Shortest C code to display argv in-order
I recently tried to produce the shortest C code possible to display all its command line arguments (which are stored in argv).
I ended with a relatively small piece of code, and I was wondering if ...
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Tips for golfing in Retina
What general tips do you have for golfing in Retina? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Retina (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Tips for Golfing in Vyxal 3
The reason for this question is because I made a deadlineless bounty and I need a tips question to link in the bounty
Vyxal 3 is the third major version of the Vyxal golfing language. As it is ...
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Tips for golfing in sed
What general tips do you have for golfing in sed? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to sed (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Tips for Golfing in Vyxal
Vyxal is a golfing language that has 500+ different commands (achieved through overloads), and is a known beater of Jelly, 05AB1E and most golfing languages.
Henceforth, it seems like a good idea to ...
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Tips for golfing in Haskell
What general tips do you have for golfing in Haskell? I am looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Haskell. Please post only one ...
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Is there a shortest code to format string
Code Golf Challenge
Given a string of 10 characters:
'abcdefghij'
I want to format it in this pattern and print it in the console in a minimum number of characters:
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Tips for golfing in Bash
What general tips do you have for golfing in Bash? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Bash (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Tips for golfing in Scala
What general tips do you have for golfing in Scala? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Scala (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Shortest CSS selector to select ALL html elements, without using asterisk *
What is the shortest selector (by character count) to select ALL html elements on a web page, without using asterisk (*)? Some examples are the following:
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How can I shorten a C code that repeatedly outputs a number?
I wrote a code that separates the numbers from 1 to 9999 by comma
void p(n){printf("%d,",n);if(n<9999){p(n+1);}}main(){p(1);}
Is there a way to make ...
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Tips for golfing in TypeScript's type system
What general tips do you have for golfing in TypeScript's type system? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to TypeScript's ...
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Tips for golfing in Prolog
What general tips do you have for golfing in Prolog? I am looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Prolog (e.g. one letter ...
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Tips for golfing in Perl?
What general tips do you have for golfing in Perl? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Perl (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Binary expansion and partition numbers [closed]
Not sure if it's correct to ask such a question on this site, but let's try.
Let a(n) be a sequence of positive integer such that a(1) = 1. To reproduce the sequence a(n) through itself, use the ...
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Tips for golfing in Python
What general tips do you have for golfing in Python? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Python (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Is there a shorter way to get user input in python?
This is not a challenge. I'm wondering if it's at all possible to get user input into two separate variables in python (2 or 3) with less than 19 bytes. These are all the shortest I can get:
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Tips for golfing in JavaScript
What general tips do you have for golfing in JavaScript? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to JavaScript (e.g. "remove ...
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Tips for radiation hardening
The aim of this post is to gather all the tips that can often be applied to radiation-hardening challenges.
Please only post answers which can apply to a large number of languages, and one tip per ...
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Further golfing this C# code from Scramble words while preserving their outlines
I'll start off by saying I checked and checked again that this question should be on topic.
I will also clearly state that this is a tips question about further golfing a certain set of code not a ...
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PHP+C polyglot solution to mixed types
Some built-in functions in PHP return mixed types, like file_get_contents that returns both string or ...
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Tips for Golfing the Lambda Calculus & Friends
This includes tips for all related derivatives, as coding in these langs often primarily consists of writing the function in the lambda calculus and then compiling it down at the end.
Among others, ...
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Tips for golfing in Pascal
What general tips do you have for golfing code in Pascal?
I know this is a tricky language very few people use this but I would like to know any tips from the professionals out there :)
I'm looking ...
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Tips for golfing in PHP
What general tips do you have for golfing in PHP? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to PHP (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Shorten this recursive even fibonacci implementation [closed]
I have the following Haskell code to generate the the values of the Fibonacci sequence which are even as an infinite list:
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Tips for Code Golfing in Desmos
Desmos is mainly used as an online graphing calculator, but its graphical and mathematical functionalities can also be applied in certain coding challenges.
I know not that many people use Desmos on ...
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Tips for golfing in Lua
What general tips do you have for golfing in Lua? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Lua (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Tips for golfing in Factor
What general tips do you have for golfing in Factor? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Factor (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Tips for Golfing in Go
What general tips do you have for golfing in Go? I'm new to Code Golfing and looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Go.
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Tips for golfing in Thue
Anyone got tips for golfing in Thue. One tip per answer, and no tips aplicable to all languages (like remove comments)
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Tips for golfing in (,) in-paren-comma
What tips do you have for golfing in (,)? I've found that there are so many ways to make code shorter, and I want more ways. I doubt there even are any tips for (,) that are applicable in the majority ...
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Tips for improving your score in fastest code challenges
Fastest code is a scoring method on this site where the goal is to write code that is as fast as possible.
From the tag wiki:
The winner of a fastest-code challenge is determined by the runtime ...
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Tips for golfing in C
What general tips do you have for golfing in C? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C (e.g. "remove comments" is not an ...
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Tips for golfing in TI-BASIC
What general tips do you have for golfing in TI-BASIC for the TI-83/84+ series calculators? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat ...
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Tips for golfing in C++
What general tips do you have for golfing in C++?
I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C++ (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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Tips for golfing in Arturo
Arturo is a bytecode-compiled/interpreted, garbage-collected general-purpose language filling a role similar to JavaScript, Python and Ruby. It is centered around the concept of blocks, which hold ...
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Can Bitshift Variations in C Minor be compressed down to less than 185 characters?
Bitshift Variations in C Minor by Robert Miles is a Code Golf music piece written in C (with some additional bash commands). It was originally presented in a 2016 Computerphile video Code Golf & ...
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Shortest way to convert the result of a test to a string output (e.g. true or false) in bash
I'm trying to shorten a bash solution to a Code Golf challenge, which requires an output of true or false. I've managed to ...
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What is the ABSOLOUTE shortest way to write this code?
So I got kinda bored and was wondering if it was possible to make this code shorter without modifying anything except a file named coin.py...
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Tips for golfing in x86/x64 machine code
I noticed that there's no such question, so here it is:
Do you have general tips for golfing in x86/x64 machine code? If the tip only applies to a certain environment or calling convention, please ...
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Tips for Regex Golf
Similar to our threads for language-specific golfing tips: what are general tricks to shorten regular expressions?
I can see three uses of regex when it comes to golfing: classic regex golf ("here ...
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Tips for golfing in Thunno 2
Thunno 2 is a stack-based golfing language with around 400 commands (achieved through overloads) created by me, The Thonnu.
It seems like a good idea to share some tips for golfing in Thunno 2.
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Tips for golfing in PARI/GP
PARI/GP is a free computer algebra system. It is designed for (algebraic) number theory, not golfing, but that's part of the attraction. Unsurprisingly, it fares best at mathematical tasks; its ...
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Tips for code-golfing in C#
What general tips do you have for golfing in C#? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C# (e.g. "remove comments" is not an ...
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Tips for golfing in K
K is a programming language in the APL family designed by Arthur Whitney. While the official interpreter is closed-source and commercial, a trial version with a workspace limit of 32 bits of ...
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Tips for golfing in Pip
Pip is an imperative golfing language with infix operators. It also borrows some features from functional and array programming.
What general tips do you have for golfing in Pip? I'm looking for ...
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Tips for golfing in Mathematica
What general tips do you have for golfing in Mathematica? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Mathematica (e.g. "remove ...
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Tips for golfing in MATLAB
What general tips do you have for golfing in MATLAB? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to MATLAB (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Tips for Creating/Maintaining a Golfing Language
Creating a golfing language can be hard. Let's help budding golfing language creators out and provide some helpful tips on how to create one.
I'm looking for tips on:
The design process
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Tips for golfing in Scratch
Scratch is a visual programming language. For the sake of counting bytes, Scratch is usually written in scratchblocks2 syntax.
Post tips that specifically apply to Scratch or scratchblocks2.
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