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Played Challenges

That hyphen - 2520 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #611 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11284 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #26 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5484 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #822 / 1241
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 772 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #15 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 6
Happy TvvO - 394 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #14 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15827 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #45 / 4129
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3135 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #502 / 1118
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1959 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: 12
  • Position: #172 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: 15
  • Position: #429 / 1057
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12786 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #470 / 3928
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2773 / 3459
  • Number of attempts: 2
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