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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #243 / 1117
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #180 / 492
Number of attempts: 5

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #54 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: #1968 / 7490
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #151 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #22 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 161 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #322 / 1284
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #100 / 1557
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #90 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #92 / 590
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #456 / 864
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1134 / 3087
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #246 / 539
Number of attempts: 5

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #285 / 901
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #904 / 1895
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #191 / 386
Number of attempts: 3

html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 55
Position: #56 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #577 / 707
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #244 / 642
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #277 / 704
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2957 / 4234
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #503 / 2147
Number of attempts: 7

One to Ten - 2243 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: 12
Position: #209 / 683
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2087 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #251 / 513
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #477 / 1194
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1910 / 4208
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1449 / 3703
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 15
Position: #507 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1772 / 3979
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2615 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #394 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #608 / 1756
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat a C golf submission - 629 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #88 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13421 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1880 / 3847
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7513 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 45
Position: #1221 / 1849
Number of attempts: 1