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Estimating demand for challenge types

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Most challenges are code golf. Apart from being the name of the community, code golf is also easier to write both answers and challenges for (while a lot of time and effort can go into golfing, writing a valid answer is generally quick, and measuring its score is trivial). All of my challenges so far have been code golf.

I'd like to post some different types of challenge. While weighing several ideas in my mind, I'd like to know what types of challenge you would like to see more of. I'm specifically interested to hear what winning criterion / scoring method you'd like to see (rather than which topics - graphical output, ASCII art, and string are topics that could apply to many scoring methods).

I'd like to hear about existing scoring methods you want to see more of, and new scoring methods we don't yet have here.

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Existing scoring method tags

Definite scoring methods

Some maybes

  • speedgolf (no idea what this one means - no challenges and no tag description)
  • alternative-scoring (this seems to be mostly variations on code-golf rather than completely different challenge types)
  • code-bowling (I struggle to imagine how this could work without additional restrictions, but I'm open to ideas)
  • code-challenge (this one seems to be almost a placeholder for challenges that don't have a challenge type category yet)
  • optimization (this seems to be being used as both a theme [golf an optimisation algorithm] and a challenge type [overlapping with fastest code])

New ideas

Are there any types of challenge that we don't have tags or discussions for yet? This could be a challenge type you've seen elsewhere, or a completely new idea. Note that the automated leaderboard is already set up to display answers in the opposite order for challenges tagged highest-score. For example, see the leaderboard under Output 256 in many different ways.

This means that new ideas where the winner is the answer with the highest score are already supported by the leaderboard. There's also lowest-score for challenges other than code golf that have a scoring method to be minimised.

Measuring interest

Since I'd like an idea of which challenge types there is most demand for, please post each challenge type in a separate answer so voting can distinguish between them.

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