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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #158 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3108 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #99 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #95 / 739
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #411 / 1578
  • Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #11 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #147 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #5 / 1249
  • Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #65 / 2078
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #111 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 765 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #203 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill visual area - 82 entries

Just have fun!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #6 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #230 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #98 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 777 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #22 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #87 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #34 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #13 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 6
120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #110 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 198 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #4 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: 19
  • Position: #562 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #116 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #486 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #171 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #439 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2399 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #349 / 727
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #260 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #375 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #282 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #123 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #298 / 3502
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #523 / 1561
  • Number of attempts: 4
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