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Filling braces - 124 entries

Inspired by a question on CoDidact (https://software.codidact.com/posts/296501), I wondered if Vim could offer a satisfactory ‘solution’ to this problem.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #4 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 7
Even and Odd - 254 entries

separate the even numbers from the odd numbers

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 17
Modifying .XCompose - 68 entries

You just wrote some lines in .XCompose, but now you want the compose sequences to be more verbose. Change the compose sequence for each Greek letter to its name.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #7 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 956 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #51 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 14
Delete the last function argument in python. - 649 entries

Delete the last function argument in this python script.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #125 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flip All Bits - 401 entries

Perform a bitwise NOT operation on each bit, meaning that bits that are 0 become 1, and those that are 1 become 0.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #8 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 11
Find the devices that have no revoked time, and extract out the duration left on their leases. - 212 entries

Extract non-revoked devices and the duration of their leases.

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #22 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 10
Convert list of enums to list of localization terms - 228 entries

While making my game Piloteer, I had a large list of TaskTypes and needed to convert them to an equivalent list of localization terms, to be used when translating the game's text into different languages.

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 106
  • Position: #29 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 11
From brakets to parens - 1306 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #66 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 9
Create json from a .env file - 1716 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #40 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 23
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