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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4451 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #896 / 1090
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: 27
  • Position: #310 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: 24
  • Position: #3087 / 7401
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #158 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #50 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #782 / 1265
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1062 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3269 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #269 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1465 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #473 / 845
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1605 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2025 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #9 / 521
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #454 / 1157
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #567 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
  • Position: #238 / 380
  • 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: 16
  • Position: #275 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11418 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3117 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1671 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #81 / 96
  • 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: 24
  • Position: #635 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1176 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #208 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #668 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15956 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3068 / 4171
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #733 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1546 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2517 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #987 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12631 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2506 / 3655
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6836 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #824 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 3
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