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Played Challenges

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 283 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #25 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
RUST match with enum for Coin - 168 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 103
  • Position: #19 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1102 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #66 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 1871 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #122 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS Final exam vimgolf - 804 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #106 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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: #165 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #137 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 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: 12
  • Position: #99 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 720 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: 20
  • Position: #73 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #291 / 497
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 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: #112 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33124 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: 23
  • Position: #2768 / 7307
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #159 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #112 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #629 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #685 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1024 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #122 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #307 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #86 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4651 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1458 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #254 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #60 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #104 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1677 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #22 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #821 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #374 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #292 / 630
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3141 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #273 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #250 / 1245
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1328 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #125 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #954 / 2072
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2123 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: #329 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #122 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #507 / 1176
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2006 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #725 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1572 / 3647
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2505 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #640 / 1724
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11896 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1845 / 3481
  • Number of attempts: 1
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