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Played Challenges

maximun and minimun - 52 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #7 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 2
Recursively Palindrome - 234 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #11 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #105 / 716
  • Number of attempts: 6
Before there was Farmville... - 95 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

  • Best score: 156
  • Best player score: 208
  • Position: #16 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 800 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #22 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 17
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #41 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 411 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #5 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 18
Numbering a List - 1828 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #154 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 141 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #34 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 4
Java Array2List - 218 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #7 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 7
Assignment Alignment - 770 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #12 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 11
Increment, increment, increment.... - 567 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #161 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 1
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