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: 22
- Position: #232 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #360 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #847 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #163 / 569
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #213 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #327 / 840
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1172 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #341 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 35 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #3 / 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #24 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
- Position: #279 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #332 / 744
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #387 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 119 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- 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: #2754 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #89 / 271
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 531 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #70 / 131
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
- Position: #194 / 287
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 10
- Position: #115 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1172 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 73
- Position: #145 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
lipsum lines - 252 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #50 / 91
- Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #1 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #50 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #150 / 496
- Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 272 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #25 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #10 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #243 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 234 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #87 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1799 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #725 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1496 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Santa's naughty / nice list - 78 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #13 / 24
- Number of attempts: 3
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #176 / 188
- Number of attempts: 1
Chucking wood - 106 entries
An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)
- Best score: 51
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #21 / 46
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #28 / 454
- Number of attempts: 4
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #314 / 401
- 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: 14
- Position: #1406 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #998 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 4