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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: 26
  • Position: #3435 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #679 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18478 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2312 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #287 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #297 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1169 / 1572
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2260 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #95 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #731 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #114 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #344 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #216 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 2
50 factorials mod 97 - 47 entries

List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #16 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1650 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #329 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #125 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #273 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2112 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1531 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #81 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 4
Stairs Indenting - 440 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #148 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1973 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: 29
  • Position: #340 / 468
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #525 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #892 / 1722
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #525 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
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