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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33703 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #48 / 7438
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #375 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7933 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #18 / 2134
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #60 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #315 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #233 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #768 / 3687
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1947 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #577 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #193 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3727 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #555 / 800
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1309 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #297 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12935 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #991 / 3725
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7100 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #880 / 1742
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alykhan Kanji
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Intern at Apple. Candidate for Bachelor of Software Engineering @uWaterloo. Past intern @TripAdvisor and @Fixmo.

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