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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1031 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1232 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #3950 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #279 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #449 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #241 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 3
Condensed Cases - 821 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 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3148 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #935 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #492 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #627 / 709
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #869 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #428 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2340 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 5
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