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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #215 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #499 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #93 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #167 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 3
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 270 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #52 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #174 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 12
  • Position: #143 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #83 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #83 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #401 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #71 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #434 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1388 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hole-in-one - 1039 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #183 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 4
The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #315 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #58 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #597 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #517 / 786
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #312 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #285 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #184 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1361 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
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