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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 25
  • Position: #3227 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #921 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #296 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1794 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1167 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #997 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #121 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1143 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 211 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #55 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2102 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #97 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 4
Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #135 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #120 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2754 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #173 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3451 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 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 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #1249 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 2
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