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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #906 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #750 / 766
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #479 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #285 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1184 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #115 / 305
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #463 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 736 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: #118 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #317 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3014 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #260 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3198 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: #601 / 1090
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3241 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1162 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #367 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1381 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 5
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