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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: #1025 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 19
  • Position: #687 / 767
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1232 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #627 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3715 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #879 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #261 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 1
Land of the Lost - 96 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #25 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 2
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #89 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #65 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #387 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 223 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: #43 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #219 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #72 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #192 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 1
Winning streak - 156 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #38 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 229 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: #85 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #187 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #86 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2813 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #158 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #551 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #226 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #72 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #219 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #269 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #493 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #431 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2011 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #533 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1663 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: #479 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
  • Position: #1017 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2232 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #646 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #664 / 786
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #344 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #862 / 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: 17
  • Position: #2556 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7610 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #956 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
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