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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 50
  • Position: #7388 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4670 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1226 / 1285
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1227 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
  • Position: #299 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #678 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 40
  • Position: #631 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #355 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2437 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 4
Un"finnish"ed Work - 126 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #33 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 168 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #100 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #167 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 3
create arrows in a list - 130 entries

Add arrow at same distance

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #69 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1607 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 692 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #124 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #252 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
  • Position: #209 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hello ${world} - 344 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #78 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #990 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10721 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1161 / 3704
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2392 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
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