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Played Challenges

Simple text editing with Vim - 11104 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 6

Change name of a variable - 148 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 471 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Counting in binary - 405 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4696 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 923 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 16895 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 3956 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 692 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1764 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1481 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
Number of attempts: 9

Simple, Practical, and Common - 30755 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: 22
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10184 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 6

Generate English Alphabets - 425 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3036 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 3785 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1654 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 921 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 10565 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 14691 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 6999 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 1888 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 93
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 8520 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3246 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 4

remove all lines in first part - 149 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12151 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2025 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1812 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 519 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1074 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 7

Change the content of a string - 1267 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 2952 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
Number of attempts: 5

Increment, increment, increment.... - 524 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Vim's not included features - 168 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 2