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Played Challenges

Changing date formats - 710 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 119
Position: #153 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1843 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #19 / 573
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1681 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #132 / 565
Number of attempts: 5

Rural Post - 4591 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #33 / 1120
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #191 / 7498
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #675 / 1559
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1360 / 3898
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4848 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #7 / 1907
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1621 / 3091
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #395 / 1897
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #301 / 644
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #314 / 765
Number of attempts: 2

Start coding format - 159 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #48 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #288 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1533 / 4240
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #681 / 2151
Number of attempts: 4

Sorting a glossary - 134 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #13 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #153 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

Manual SQL - 177 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 74
Position: #37 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #175 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #691 / 1196
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1686 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #142 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 54 entries

For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!

Best score: 32
Best player score: 61
Position: #13 / 16
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #115 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #77 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #2 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 228 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 84
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 820 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #104 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 183 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #10 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 436 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #63 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2013 / 4216
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #7 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 315 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #47 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1028 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #140 / 355
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 180 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #39 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #189 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2036 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #182 / 589
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 889 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #289 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1868 / 3710
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3191 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: 16
Position: #603 / 1088
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2171 / 3983
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #856 / 1758
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1436 / 3865
Number of attempts: 3