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Played Challenges

Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3315 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change your calendar - 397 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #75 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 716 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: 32
  • Position: #111 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #279 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1352 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 5
Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #119 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 274 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: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #53 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 5
lamb had a little Mary - 637 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #36 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #211 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #525 / 655
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #179 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13123 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1038 / 3774
  • Number of attempts: 3
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