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Played Challenges

Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #452 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1370 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #581 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #184 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1166 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #556 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #606 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3865 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #545 / 873
  • 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 - 1521 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: #277 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #508 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2875 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 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #533 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7942 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1644 / 2137
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2225 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: #470 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 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 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #165 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #373 / 400
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #995 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1845 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #701 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2382 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2477 / 3969
  • 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 - 12959 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2760 / 3731
  • Number of attempts: 1
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