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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4806 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #830 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #339 / 1625
  • Number of attempts: 6
120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #84 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 11
  • Position: #16 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #433 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #483 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 22
  • Position: #1030 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2841 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #563 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #318 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #597 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2606 / 3698
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7010 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #976 / 1713
  • Number of attempts: 1
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