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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #329 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #150 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1878 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #193 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 8
Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #378 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 3
Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #143 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #248 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #495 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1809 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 175 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #64 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII-art Histogram - 333 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #46 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #621 / 785
  • Number of attempts: 6
The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #307 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 411 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #148 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 898 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #211 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 1
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