Played Challenges
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1577 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #444 / 524
- 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: 22
- Position: #283 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 14
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #314 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #57 / 744
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #420 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #105 / 695
- Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #542 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #18 / 271
- Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #656 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 8
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries
FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #12 / 51
- Number of attempts: 4
Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #67 / 171
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #127 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 12
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #101 / 418
- Number of attempts: 5
lipsum lines - 252 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #7 / 91
- Number of attempts: 5
Angular naming conventions - 301 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #26 / 114
- Number of attempts: 7
Replace and keep the case - 407 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #17 / 115
- Number of attempts: 4
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #49 / 266
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #158 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #44 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #45 / 440
- Number of attempts: 8
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #31 / 284
- Number of attempts: 8
Line 'em up! - 392 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #82 / 110
- Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #102 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #39 / 242
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #336 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #144 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #32 / 351
- Number of attempts: 5
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #85 / 268
- Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 entries
One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #8 / 56
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #40 / 293
- Number of attempts: 12
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: 11
- Position: #58 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #60 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1160 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #36 / 246
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #384 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 7
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #555 / 692
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: #137 / 511
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #221 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #396 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 10
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #34 / 473
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #42 / 736
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2078 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #121 / 651
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #387 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #72 / 640
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #7 / 736
- Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #284 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #134 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 8