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Played Challenges

Interweave two blocks of text - 692 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #121 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 4
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 201 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #10 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 343 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #7 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #123 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #545 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1686 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #74 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3202 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #81 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #210 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #119 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #571 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #78 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #81 / 862
  • Number of attempts: 11
Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #65 / 378
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #995 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #41 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 14
Augustin Trancart
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