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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1064 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #283 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 29
  • Position: #4817 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #230 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2988 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #562 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1521 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: 23
  • Position: #272 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2916 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #635 / 705
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
  • Position: #91 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 11
Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #91 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #41 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1106 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #192 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 3
Missing Library and a Typo - 900 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #195 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 992 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: 30
  • Position: #261 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #366 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 6
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #184 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #109 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1262 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 10
Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #443 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3877 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
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