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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1325 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle and Sort - 233 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #51 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #401 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2147 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #351 / 666
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #283 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #244 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #197 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1627 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #417 / 604
  • Number of attempts: 2
Deleting folded text - 386 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #115 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1488 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #488 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1630 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #336 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1062 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #185 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3775 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #620 / 809
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1367 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #339 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13039 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2799 / 3751
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7201 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #520 / 1768
  • Number of attempts: 6
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