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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4572 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #230 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #763 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #421 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #111 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2415 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #434 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1436 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #382 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1536 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #412 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #675 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #43 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #579 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #803 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #52 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple addition - 332 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #94 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #64 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 4
Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #38 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 4
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #54 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #240 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 6
Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #42 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort files from hosts - 195 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #53 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #102 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #20 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #367 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #269 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #511 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #189 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1061 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #274 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #899 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2359 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1522 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2973 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 2
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