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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #1187 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 12
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 204 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #88 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #415 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #197 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #670 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #279 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 30
  • Position: #445 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #951 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 6
Adam's challenge - 1010 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #224 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #670 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1031 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 3
Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #50 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #387 / 771
  • Number of attempts: 4
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