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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: 32
Position: #5685 / 7364
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1022 / 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: #210 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #653 / 700
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 147 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #47 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1827 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 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: #209 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: #118 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #991 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1118 / 2101
Number of attempts: 1

Assign numbers to fields - 105 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: #28 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #215 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #218 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 46
Position: #82 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #347 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

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: 10
Position: #193 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 124 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #42 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2861 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #924 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #299 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #255 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #486 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 710 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: #156 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #355 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3035 / 3667
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #424 / 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: 25
Position: #1038 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1462 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #304 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #702 / 738
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1378 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #104 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #139 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2023 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

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