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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #960 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #106 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #500 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1566 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #738 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 820 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: #77 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1486 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #519 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #203 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #60 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 12
  • Position: #179 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #330 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #558 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #247 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 15
  • Position: #444 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1430 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #340 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1417 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 1
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