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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1451 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #105 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #350 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 33
  • Position: #6168 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2204 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #607 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #47 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #92 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #421 / 878
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 25
  • Position: #560 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2737 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #6 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #795 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 12
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3182 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #684 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #208 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #1719 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 3
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