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Played Challenges

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #414 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #178 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1461 / 3093
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #602 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #476 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #132 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 376 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #75 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1705 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #201 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #227 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 14
  • Position: #97 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2058 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #797 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1239 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7614 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #382 / 1876
  • Number of attempts: 4
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