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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1861 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #390 / 399
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #468 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 2
C to python code snippet - 101 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 108
  • Position: #29 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 474 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #99 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Levenshtein distance - 122 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #33 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 319 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #36 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create Leading Zeros - 253 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #82 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 1
Create a table - 333 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #104 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #71 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 4
Triangle of arrows - 214 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #41 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 2
mp3 - Cutlist - 50 entries

An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.

  • Best score: 64
  • Best player score: 70
  • Position: #7 / 15
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 336 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #90 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 2
Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 85
  • Position: #32 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #106 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #56 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 1
Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 67
  • Position: #74 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #43 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 320 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #106 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 2
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