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Played Challenges

A Simple One - 1067 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #615 / 671
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #101 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #72 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 789 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #110 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 782 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #171 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 423 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #153 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 388 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #103 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #390 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1401 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #269 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2386 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 2
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