Played Challenges
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: 29
- Position: #4656 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1033 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #468 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #329 / 700
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #52 / 635
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2400 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #562 / 581
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 72 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #29 / 33
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #953 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #174 / 287
- Number of attempts: 5
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #53 / 137
- Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #64 / 120
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1278 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #43 / 161
- Number of attempts: 10
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #57 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #106 / 255
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #101 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #289 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #135 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 219 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #49 / 81
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1311 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #355 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #90 / 293
- Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #382 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2178 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #568 / 692
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
- Position: #472 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2905 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #97 / 191
- Number of attempts: 7
A simple change - 442 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #114 / 189
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #913 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #58 / 229
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #2642 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #153 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 9