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vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #57 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 6
Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #80 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1113 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 271 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #54 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #526 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 3
Assign list - 226 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #8 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 9
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 198 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #13 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 6
Define to require - 143 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

  • Best score: 62
  • Best player score: 88
  • Position: #31 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor arguments into object argument - 181 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #17 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 11
Remove noise from HTTP log - 759 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #75 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #86 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 22
Ben Zittlau
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