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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4572 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #789 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #1125 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 19
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: 30
  • Position: #1511 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #466 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #61 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1361 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3944 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #706 / 894
  • Number of attempts: 12
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #51 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 11
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: 20
  • Position: #132 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 6
html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #102 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #97 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1006 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #340 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #326 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #341 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #650 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1196 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1633 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 5
Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 70
  • Position: #36 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 2
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