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Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 576 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #9 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 3
Easier Align - 442 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 210
  • Position: #59 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
  • Position: #264 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 168
  • Position: #182 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 11
The holy-grail may help - 391 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #157 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shebangs for all - 2062 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: #430 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 6
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