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vim = 22 / 7 - 493 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #44 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #51 / 89
  • 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: #59 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
  • Position: #375 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2564 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign list - 227 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #7 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 10
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 199 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: 22
  • Position: #42 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 81
  • Position: #26 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 4
Refactor arguments into object argument - 182 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #9 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 15
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1643 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #407 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 760 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: #72 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2716 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #317 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 5
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