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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2632 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #16 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 7
HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #271 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #184 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #72 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #2275 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #902 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3680 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #662 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 8
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: 30
  • Position: #341 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2538 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #378 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2600 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 4
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