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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4833 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #904 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #744 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #477 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #282 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #114 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #460 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 720 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #117 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #316 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3009 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #258 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 16
  • Position: #599 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3237 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1160 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #367 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1376 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 5
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