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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #530 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #568 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18798 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1353 / 3880
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1174 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #189 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #394 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #851 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2210 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #461 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #199 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 5
Align commas - 1097 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: #185 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #565 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1291 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #630 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2127 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3110 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #401 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #900 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1551 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7252 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #386 / 1790
  • Number of attempts: 2
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