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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 27
  • Position: #3818 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #47 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2613 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1168 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #42 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #628 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #67 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #458 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 9
underscore_to_camelCase - 187 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #19 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 110 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #39 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #176 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 3
Free hyphen! - 191 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #8 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #159 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirrored text - 199 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #12 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #61 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 6
Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #182 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #106 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #818 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 2
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #66 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #182 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #387 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #156 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #952 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #685 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #421 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #159 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
  • Position: #1564 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
T. Sakuma
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洋ドラマが好き。フットサルを続けてます。 最近は、電子工作とジム通いが加わりました。

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