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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33240 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #192 / 7331
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2289 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #141 / 740
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #473 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #198 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7687 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #82 / 2079
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vim's not included features - 183 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #39 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 3
Angular naming conventions - 287 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #4 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sudoku table - 61 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #10 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 3
Manual SQL - 114 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 49
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #16 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #115 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 4
readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #64 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #188 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 3
ASCII box - 324 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #48 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 7
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #100 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1607 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #233 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 713 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #218 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #144 / 293
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: 14
  • Position: #335 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 710 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #75 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #161 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #189 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #835 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 14
  • Position: #212 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2261 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2406 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #351 / 728
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2907 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #507 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2019 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #390 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #283 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1846 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #221 / 486
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3141 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #275 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 11973 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1429 / 3506
  • Number of attempts: 2
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