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Played Challenges

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 46
Position: #24 / 66
Number of attempts: 6

Rural Post - 4485 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #358 / 1099
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #1912 / 7422
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4622 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #770 / 1269
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #456 / 1539
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 25
Position: #3351 / 3865
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #191 / 579
Number of attempts: 5

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #122 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4806 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1405 / 1894
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #134 / 258
Number of attempts: 3

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #148 / 249
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1592 / 3065
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #109 / 526
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #557 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3590 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #282 / 1163
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3829 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #271 / 866
Number of attempts: 4

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #63 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #192 / 1877
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #109 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 20
Position: #175 / 380
Number of attempts: 8

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 65
Position: #86 / 126
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #82 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #249 / 703
Number of attempts: 7

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #141 / 640
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2925 / 4199
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #108 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5662 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #189 / 1265
Number of attempts: 4

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #64 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #111 / 267
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #814 / 2129
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2219 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #176 / 672
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #112 / 208
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #61 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2045 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #243 / 504
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #227 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #176 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 243 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #65 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #51 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 46
Position: #103 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #122 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #119 / 269
Number of attempts: 5

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #146 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #219 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #1415 / 4182
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #393 / 1138
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2404 / 3684
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1749 / 3964
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 413 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #175 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #1 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #322 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 46
Position: #41 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #196 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #965 / 1749
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #184 / 336
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #42 / 204
Number of attempts: 9

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #201 / 220
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1050 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #505 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #348 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1801 / 3698
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7010 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 39
Position: #758 / 1713
Number of attempts: 3

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