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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2706 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 5
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #237 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #522 / 1615
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #415 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 3
Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #52 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #741 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

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

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #124 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #300 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #338 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #20 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 7
Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #324 / 342
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #515 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #644 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 2
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