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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4866 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1517 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2408 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #409 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5131 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1225 / 1672
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 188 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: #42 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 16
  • Position: #442 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #169 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 901 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #427 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #187 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 361 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #90 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10753 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1820 / 3714
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #486 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1664 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: 17
  • Position: #476 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3201 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: 18
  • Position: #978 / 1092
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3844 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #677 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #410 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5121 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #836 / 1762
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4034 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #710 / 859
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13603 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2928 / 3897
  • Number of attempts: 2
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