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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: #2557 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4535 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #586 / 1255
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18615 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2632 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1223 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2124 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #484 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2839 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #540 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
Start coding format - 147 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #62 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2554 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #350 / 694
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #907 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 936 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: #122 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #70 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #115 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #767 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 614 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #205 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 531 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #249 / 342
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3593 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 229 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #98 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 724 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #176 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 710 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: #91 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2186 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 646 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #224 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2436 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #700 / 735
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2064 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #408 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5028 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #471 / 1734
  • Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 554 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #265 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1855 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #18 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1457 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #281 / 552
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2862 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 2
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