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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 851 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #51 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5040 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1565 / 1642
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 267 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #90 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
Case preserving word replacement - 456 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #128 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #212 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2062 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #517 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1069 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #189 / 672
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #193 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #202 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #93 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #347 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1736 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #604 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1552 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #60 / 599
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1690 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #401 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13343 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2422 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 2
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