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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 - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #178 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1458 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #599 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #474 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 4
Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #131 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 357 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: #74 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10721 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1701 / 3704
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #199 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #225 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #97 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2054 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #795 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1234 / 3849
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7533 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #378 / 1852
  • Number of attempts: 4
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