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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #920 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 391 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #40 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #365 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2062 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #258 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1070 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #128 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #152 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 3
Indentation - 552 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #130 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #48 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #67 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #329 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 441 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #70 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 2
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