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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 578 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #107 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1432 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #390 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 220
  • Position: #565 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1809 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #493 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #450 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #518 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1885 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #2984 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1250 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #541 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #380 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #128 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #259 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 180 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #130 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #295 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #47 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #352 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #198 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2572 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 118
  • Position: #760 / 761
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1262 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #361 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #636 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #239 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1649 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #512 / 609
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13123 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #3717 / 3774
  • Number of attempts: 1
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