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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: 23
  • Position: #2594 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #597 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2665 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1238 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #489 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #547 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 1
Start coding format - 159 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #65 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #356 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #907 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #130 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #70 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #118 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #781 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #216 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #249 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3643 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #98 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #180 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #93 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2212 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #224 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #737 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #429 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #471 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #265 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #18 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #327 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
  • Position: #3090 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
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