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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33256 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: #20 / 7337
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #123 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #102 / 740
  • Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2538 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #299 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #788 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 11
Make HTML List - 1006 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #222 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #319 / 1251
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7708 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #5 / 2084
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #32 / 1180
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #246 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #155 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 387 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #82 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
  • Position: #72 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15890 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #26 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #510 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #100 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10595 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #537 / 3657
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
  • Position: #435 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #572 / 3939
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5013 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1495 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12045 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #312 / 3528
  • Number of attempts: 5
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