Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32972 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
- Position: #30 / 7278
- Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5977 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #583 / 1468
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2099 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10546 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1851 / 2990
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2103 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #173 / 623
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #494 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1516 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1780 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #50 / 571
- Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #150 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7541 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #832 / 2049
- 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
- Position: #14 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 183 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #37 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #136 / 262
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #51 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 505 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #172 / 330
- Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 178 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
- Position: #49 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15749 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1429 / 4117
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #155 / 342
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 163 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
- Position: #82 / 127
- Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 703 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
- Position: #129 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #76 / 242
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #48 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #535 / 685
- Number of attempts: 4
Counting in binary - 412 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #92 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1553 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: #77 / 500
- Number of attempts: 9
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: #93 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #50 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 1985 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #241 / 628
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #239 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 1905 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #331 / 625
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #57 / 194
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1832 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #307 / 627
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #179 / 378
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 565 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #142 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1354 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #492 / 522
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1211 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #481 / 490
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11662 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1015 / 3419
- Number of attempts: 6