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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 39 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 1121 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #78 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 9
Substraction (bis) - 403 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #23 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 16
delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #234 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #193 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 10
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: 19
  • Position: #65 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 8
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 649 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #287 / 374
  • Number of attempts: 1
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