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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4829 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1022 / 1902
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #679 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5022 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1211 / 1636
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #624 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3705 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #876 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #260 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #24 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #88 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #64 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #382 / 446
  • 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: 19
  • Position: #42 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #218 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 354 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #71 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #190 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Winning streak - 139 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #37 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #83 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 807 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: 16
  • Position: #185 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #86 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2801 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 242 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #156 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #549 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #223 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #71 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #218 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #267 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 16
  • Position: #490 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #425 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2005 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #531 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1644 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #477 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
  • Position: #1012 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2227 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #641 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #659 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #342 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5093 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #859 / 1753
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13245 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2514 / 3804
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7361 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #933 / 1820
  • Number of attempts: 1
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