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Played Challenges

Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #447 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4795 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1366 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #574 / 845
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #183 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1162 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #555 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #602 / 1157
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #536 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 1
Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #26 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #180 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 23
  • Position: #276 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #507 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #470 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #531 / 1261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1635 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2209 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #467 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #150 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #165 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #365 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #994 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1840 / 4170
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #701 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2375 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2469 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #56 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2704 / 3652
  • Number of attempts: 1
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