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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: 30
  • Position: #5198 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #730 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2613 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #359 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #107 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1625 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1097 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #67 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2621 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2820 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2958 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1665 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tim Boooo-ckley 👻
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