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Played Challenges

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1725 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #433 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2463 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #146 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #695 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2839 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #667 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #338 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 1
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 569 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #133 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data - 215 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #57 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 432 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #112 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy New Year! - 150 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #46 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #455 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #302 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3236 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 1
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