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Played Challenges

Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #305 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #396 / 860
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #867 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2052 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #339 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #561 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #131 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 7
ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #219 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #108 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1291 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #133 / 151
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #437 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #220 / 336
  • Number of attempts: 1
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 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 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 4
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #133 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13122 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #954 / 3774
  • Number of attempts: 6
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