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Played Challenges

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 956 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #87 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete the last function argument in python. - 655 entries

Delete the last function argument in this python script.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #134 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
π - 327 entries

1200 π chars

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #43 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change readonly files - 128 entries

Try to write a file that was marked as read-only.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #20 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wget failed to download redirections - 250 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #63 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 211 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #56 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #187 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 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: 37
  • Position: #452 / 488
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #155 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1754 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: 29
  • Position: #416 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #479 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2121 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #1385 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 3
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