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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33717 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: #1421 / 7441
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #894 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #125 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1316 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
  • Position: #33 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #526 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #626 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 19
  • Position: #60 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #205 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #529 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11479 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2701 / 4207
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #167 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 21
  • Position: #33 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 264 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #100 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #130 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7942 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #386 / 2137
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #253 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #101 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #267 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #592 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2254 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 5
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #67 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10679 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2331 / 3688
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #146 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 13
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1681 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #202 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7128 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #162 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 5
Coruja Queridinha
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Desenvolvedora full-stack na @magnetis, guitarrista, usuária de @emacs classe C só por diversão. Ela (she/her, they/them). Bilingual (pt_BR/en_US) tweets below.

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