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Played Challenges

Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #638 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #3 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 2
Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #17 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #59 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2444 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #28 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 8
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #548 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #86 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #150 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #314 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 3
constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 92
  • Position: #27 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1034 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #55 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #77 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 2
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #35 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3741 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #504 / 802
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12959 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #814 / 3731
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7134 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #792 / 1751
  • Number of attempts: 1
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