Played Challenges
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 842 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #148 / 258
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 31
- Position: #5570 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1162 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #902 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1229 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
TAR archive pretty print - 24 entries
Will you use isk ?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #10 / 11
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #79 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #419 / 569
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1333 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #333 / 840
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #45 / 68
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #145 / 254
- Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #169 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #94 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2202 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #597 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #675 / 827
- Number of attempts: 1
My cafe needs a new menu - 23 entries
Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.
- Best score: 126
- Best player score: 189
- Position: #6 / 6
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #899 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #291 / 376
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #588 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #218 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #74 / 127
- Number of attempts: 4
Number Sort - 305 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #89 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2757 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #509 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #762 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #201 / 287
- Number of attempts: 4
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #239 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #270 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
Create bison tokens - 34 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
- Best score: 85
- Best player score: 93
- Position: #8 / 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #204 / 496
- Number of attempts: 4
simple format (3) - 72 entries
reverse two column values!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #13 / 21
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #173 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #76 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple format (2) - 334 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #45 / 69
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #290 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #811 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #375 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 13
- Position: #266 / 578
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1341 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #569 / 692
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #306 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3294 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
Array Transposition - 177 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #43 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 262 entries
Complete these (weird) calculations.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #36 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #542 / 738
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #235 / 403
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1420 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 132
- Position: #79 / 141
- Number of attempts: 6
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #346 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #195 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2560 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Santa's naughty / nice list - 78 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
My cafe needs a new menu - 23 entries
Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.
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