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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1427 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #68 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #308 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #117 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #127 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat a C golf submission - 612 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #107 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 776 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: 22
  • Position: #219 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #100 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 24
  • Position: #201 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #532 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12959 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2571 / 3731
  • Number of attempts: 1
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