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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 298 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #59 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1304 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: #350 / 382
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2481 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 220
  • Position: #536 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1758 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #480 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #448 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #507 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1877 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #2965 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1236 / 1615
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #536 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: #376 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 392 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #127 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #258 / 259
  • 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 - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #350 / 360
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 472 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #195 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 118
  • Position: #750 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1257 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 573 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #358 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #629 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 750 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: #233 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #486 / 577
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #3599 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 1
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