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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #5247 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #54 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 4
vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #21 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #828 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #62 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vim tetris - 388 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #45 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 5
Five Pillars - 85 entries

Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #21 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 29
  • Position: #66 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #191 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 5
Counting in binary - 556 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #18 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #244 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2843 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #94 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #204 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 3
Stairs Indenting - 502 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #121 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #61 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #150 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 4
Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #87 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #58 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2101 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #139 / 532
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #292 / 465
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #60 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #104 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 16
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