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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #867 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #85 / 766
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #457 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 3
Suffix sort - 287 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #51 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #93 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #69 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #170 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1894 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1663 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: 11
  • Position: #258 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3198 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: #598 / 1090
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #437 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #551 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1374 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 6
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