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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1959 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #514 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #940 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #732 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1401 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #52 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1148 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #257 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2265 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 4
learn vim in short time - 246 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #158 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #912 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #325 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #125 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3020 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
  • Position: #607 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2866 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 4
Stairs Indenting - 483 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #131 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #100 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #438 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #352 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #157 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1589 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #302 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1375 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #282 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #507 / 541
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #516 / 651
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3234 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
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