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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 504 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #95 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1408 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #384 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2547 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 220
  • Position: #555 / 556
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #487 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #449 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1134 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #512 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4813 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1883 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10879 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #2977 / 3071
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1249 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #538 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #379 / 382
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #127 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #259 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #130 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #294 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #47 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #351 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 478 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #197 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2551 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 118
  • Position: #755 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1261 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #360 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #636 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 776 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #238 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #500 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12955 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #3675 / 3730
  • Number of attempts: 1
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