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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #87 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #570 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1591 / 1637
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #24 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #165 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #459 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #14 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #233 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1837 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: 12
  • Position: #332 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 16
  • Position: #588 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3655 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #469 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #265 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1579 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: 15
  • Position: #279 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 423 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #111 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #478 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 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: 25
  • Position: #360 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2137 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #1247 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 3
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