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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: #1373 / 7401
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1191 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #298 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 9
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #59 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #16 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #351 / 845
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1328 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #83 / 1157
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #716 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #16 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1503 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: 20
  • Position: #323 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11418 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1117 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5644 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #118 / 1262
  • Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #56 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 9
One to Ten - 2209 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #24 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #93 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #51 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 973 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #148 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #35 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #845 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15956 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1335 / 4171
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2228 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1619 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #412 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2385 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #537 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 2
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