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Extract argument from function - 2408 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #28 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #622 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1664 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: 10
  • Position: #98 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3201 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: #120 / 1092
  • Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #116 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 21
  • Position: #98 / 488
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #20 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 3054 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #57 / 788
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5121 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #260 / 1762
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13603 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #246 / 3897
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7658 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #101 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 10
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