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Interweave two blocks of text - 615 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #115 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 4
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 158 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #8 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 299 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #7 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #123 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3403 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #527 / 686
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1580 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: 10
  • Position: #70 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 14
  • Position: #81 / 1057
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #190 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #105 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #547 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #78 / 1722
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3102 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #53 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 11
Flodder-challenge - 978 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #46 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #900 / 3471
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6223 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #30 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 14
Augustin Trancart
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Enthusiastic coder, love Free Software, mozilla contributor, warm person :-) Currently part of @Oslandia_team

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