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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #156 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #189 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #12 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 20
  • Position: #3 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 4
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #5 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #5 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #23 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #83 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #91 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 386 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #133 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #30 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #69 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 1054 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #12 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 8
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #83 / 803
  • Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #6 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12983 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #120 / 3736
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #221 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 3
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