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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 25
  • Position: #3220 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #698 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2062 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1204 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #379 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2916 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #442 / 705
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #439 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #740 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 3
underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #76 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1268 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #62 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 3
7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #48 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #91 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #61 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #65 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #205 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #63 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #135 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #84 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #250 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #144 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2168 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #382 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2142 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2916 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 2
Christian Rondeau
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