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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: #447 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1096 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #155 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
  • Position: #436 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1471 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #49 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1636 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #988 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 136 entries

Add arrow at same distance

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #31 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1759 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #18 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #213 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #11 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #154 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #81 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 438 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #194 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #79 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 7
learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #56 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #69 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #219 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #704 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
  • Position: #181 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2664 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 193 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #49 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #96 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 394 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #137 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #283 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #152 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #33 / 464
  • Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #204 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #154 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
  • Position: #328 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 4
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