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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 36
  • Position: #6735 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1662 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #627 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #575 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4125 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #911 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #341 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #83 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #1191 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3964 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #957 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3479 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #249 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #1018 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3484 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #397 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 7
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 142
  • Position: #80 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #749 / 857
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 23
  • Position: #3175 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #1352 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 3
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