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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33614 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: 32
Position: #5721 / 7418
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1032 / 1268
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4802 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #210 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #655 / 703
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #49 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1831 / 4197
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 35
Position: #212 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #124 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #998 / 1264
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7904 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1128 / 2126
Number of attempts: 1

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #30 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #218 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #222 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 46
Position: #84 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #350 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #195 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 135 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #44 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15980 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2870 / 4179
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #929 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #302 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #257 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 16
Position: #491 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 713 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: 35
Position: #158 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #358 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3049 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3516 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #429 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 25
Position: #1044 / 1078
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1470 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #308 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #717 / 754
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1385 / 1748
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #106 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #139 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12794 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2095 / 3690
Number of attempts: 1

Joel Gallant
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Computer Vision Technologist, Figuring out the world one day at a time.