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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #4189 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1654 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4813 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #92 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #431 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #92 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #387 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1588 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #27 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #509 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 867 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #170 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1575 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 2
Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #16 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #73 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 4
Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #11 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #18 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1303 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #43 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #28 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #44 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #141 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #18 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 5
120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #88 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #32 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #58 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #22 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 1
Comparing scores - 112 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #32 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #255 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #306 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #115 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #106 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2546 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #486 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #435 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1401 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2551 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #468 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #419 / 664
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #332 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #151 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #443 / 531
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #95 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 1054 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #143 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12983 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2633 / 3736
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #830 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 2
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