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: #762 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #216 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #102 / 224
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
- Position: #488 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #41 / 98
- 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: #773 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #4 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #218 / 826
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #454 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 2
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #39 / 44
- 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: #1998 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
On Being Stylish - 72 entries
Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #13 / 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #9 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 957 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #4 / 266
- Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #16 / 93
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #18 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #143 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #167 / 255
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 147 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #17 / 44
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #161 / 203
- Number of attempts: 1
Around the clock - 188 entries
You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #13 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 248 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #50 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #2 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 278 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #11 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 932 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #39 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #12 / 259
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #93 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #281 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1695 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 2
Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #29 / 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Rule 110 - 35 entries
Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 63
- Position: #8 / 11
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #543 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.