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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1297 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 7
Inconsistent real estate paste - 240 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2641 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #325 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3069 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #250 / 790
  • Number of attempts: 8
Switch function arguments - 2237 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #28 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 6
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #36 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Insert a Markdown link - 474 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #120 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 3
Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #62 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1315 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: 12
  • Position: #7 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #222 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 681 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: 40
  • Position: #179 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 847 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #265 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 4
Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #185 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #601 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1601 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #602 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #3747 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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