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Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 486 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #9 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 3
Easier Align - 347 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 210
  • Position: #53 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2262 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #219 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 4
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 644 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: 168
  • Position: #165 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #66 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 11
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #157 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shebangs for all - 1912 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #413 / 500
  • Number of attempts: 6
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