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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2103 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #258 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: 23
  • Position: #2736 / 7421
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2269 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
  • Position: #167 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #878 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 10
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #228 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1066 / 1876
  • Number of attempts: 8
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 4
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #45 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 5
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #26 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #595 / 1624
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #373 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1252 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 5
Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #43 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #29 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1411 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1399 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #320 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1734 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 2
If-then-else regexp - 53 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #11 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 2
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