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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: 37
  • Position: #6908 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3016 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1328 / 1909
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #82 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #386 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #704 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #479 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1014 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #351 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #333 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #478 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2964 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #449 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 1
Subnetting - 142 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #23 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #82 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #573 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 1018 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: 28
  • Position: #261 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1090 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #171 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2280 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #689 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2354 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3195 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #924 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3797 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #495 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #121 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1737 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 2
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