194
votes
Print the last, middle and first character of your code
JavaScript, 9 7 bytes
N=>a=-N
Outputs: NaN
Try it online!
- 7,608
144
votes
131
votes
Accepted
Make an error quine!
Ed (1 byte)
All the other solutions thus far are long and ugly. I suppose that is because of the nature of most error messages. But a good error message is elegant in its simplicity. For that, look ...
- 2,031
125
votes
108
votes
Print a Negative of your Code
Perl, 7×7 (42 non-spaces)
for$i(
1..56 )
{$_= $i
%8? $i%
7? $":7
: $/;1;
print}
Output:
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105
votes
Accepted
Program that creates larger versions of itself (quine-variant)
GS2 (8636bd8e), 0 bytes
This prints a single newline, which prints two newlines, which prints three newlines, et cetera.
Try it online!
- 206k
86
votes
Make an error quine!
CoffeeScript, syntactically valid
As tested on their website using Chrome or Firefox.
ReferenceError: defined is not defined
You can replace ...
- 193k
77
votes
Golf you a quine for great good!
Brain-Flak, 9.8e580 1.3e562 9.3e516 12818 11024 4452 4332 4240 4200 4180 3852 3656 3616 3540 2485 + 3 = 2488 bytes
Now fits in the observable universe!
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77
votes
77
votes
Print a Negative of your Code
CJam, 4X4 (12 10 non-spaces)
6,
SS +
* 4/
N*
Output:
0 1
2
3
4 5
Previous version with 12 non-spaces:
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71
votes
Golf you a quine for great good!
Prelude, 5157 4514 2348 1761 1537 664 569 535 423 241 214 184 178 175 169 148 142 136 133 bytes
Thanks to Sp3000 for saving 3 bytes.
This is rather long... (okay, it's still long ... at least it's ...
- 193k
66
votes
A "cheating" quine
Zsh, 4 bytes
<$0
The Z shell has feline functionalities built in. The fourth character is a linefeed.
Try it online!
The code does not depend in any way on ...
- 206k
65
votes
63
votes
Write a Quine in Plain English
><>, 25 words + (22 + 11 + 11) extra = 57 49
Oh god, my brain.
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55
votes
Write a program that sees the New Year in itself
awk, 4 bytes
The structure of an awk program is pattern { action }. If pattern evaluates to true, { action } is performed. If { action } is omitted, the default is ...
- 743
53
votes
Make an error quine!
Python
Spyder
Well, a rather trivial solution for the Spyder IDE is to raise a SyntaxError.
Code and identical output:
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- 5,517
51
votes
Print a Negative of your Code
Marbelous - 16x16
....@0..@1....
@3..0A08..@2 ..
/\--....>1 ..Hp
..@2..\\ =0@3..
ss..// --\\\\..
@0/\ @1/\Hp..!!
:s #the-cake-is
2020#a-pie/lie
Test ...
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50
votes
49
votes
Golf you a quine for great good!
Vim, 11 bytes
q"iq"qP<Esc>hqP
iq"qP<Esc>: Manually insert a duplicate of the text that has to be outside the ...
- 2,611
48
votes
Golf you a quine for great good!
Javascript ES6 - 21 bytes
$=_=>`$=${$};$()`;$()
I call this quine "The Bling Quine."
Sometimes, you gotta golf in style.
- 7,690
46
votes
Make an error quine!
><> - 25 Bytes
something smells fishy...
In Fish, any bad instruction outputs the error: "something smells fishy...". Since s is not a valid command, it ...
- 2,215
46
votes
Stack Exchange Vote Counter
jQuery + JavaScript, 85 bytes
$.get("//api.stackexchange.com/posts/82610?site=codegolf",d=>alert(d.items[0].score))
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45
votes
Golf you a quine for great good!
Cubix, 20 bytes
3434Qu$v@!<"OOw\o;/"
Almost got the \o/...
Net:
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- 4,743
45
votes
Golf you a quine for great good!
Hexagony, side length 15 14 13 12, 616 533 456 383 bytes
After several days of careful golfing, rearranging loops and starting over, I've finally managed to get it down to a side 12 hexagon.
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42
votes
41
votes
40
votes
Make an error quine!
Whitespace
First I thought this is clearly impossible. But actually it is trivial as well. -.-
Fail: Input.hs:108: Non-exhaustive patterns in function parseNum'
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- 5,517
40
votes
Fastest Mini-Flak Quine
Mini-Flak, 6851113 cycles
The program (literally)
I know most people aren't likely expecting a Mini-Flak quine to be using unprintable characters and even multi-byte characters (making the encoding ...
40
votes
Accepted
Mutually Exclusive Quines
><>, Score: 41+41 = 82
Edit: both contained a 3. Fixed
'd3*}>a!o-!<<8:5@lI55>@z:5ll55>>q:>|q::|,
and
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