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Played Challenges

Create Leading Zeros - 245 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #15 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #255 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 17
  • Position: #731 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #111 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2108 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #918 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 1
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