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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #353 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #1027 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2485 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: 35
  • Position: #420 / 495
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #128 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 4
xrandr outputs and dashes - 731 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #198 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 797 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #116 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #191 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 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: 27
  • Position: #111 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 25
  • Position: #3422 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #889 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2299 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #238 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10954 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1541 / 3097
  • Number of attempts: 9
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1143 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #843 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1578 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1403 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2249 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: #291 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #456 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #1176 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3717 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1535 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 5
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