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Played Challenges

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #29 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #287 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 6
Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #80 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 15
  • Position: #404 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #234 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #233 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3741 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #716 / 802
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12967 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #227 / 3732
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7134 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #631 / 1751
  • Number of attempts: 2
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