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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: 22
  • Position: #909 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 13
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #219 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2394 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #548 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #668 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #141 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1508 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #229 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #223 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #500 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2432 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #123 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 9
Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #12 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #285 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 8
Adam's challenge - 984 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #201 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #354 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #199 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 11
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #356 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2579 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1242 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1643 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #502 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #520 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 5
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