Played Challenges
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #451 / 551
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #4 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 757 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #81 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
Capitalize the Names - 382 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2 / 95
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 23
- Position: #2470 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 3
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #110 / 257
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #370 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #756 / 1530
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1048 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 4
add line and index - 100 entries
a missed line and index names need to be added
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #19 / 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Separate the lines - 176 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #11 / 90
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #274 / 573
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 901 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: #106 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1133 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1146 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #43 / 518
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #164 / 633
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #397 / 839
- Number of attempts: 2
Hash staircase - 53 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #17 / 24
- Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 802 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #72 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #201 / 378
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1481 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #172 / 453
- Number of attempts: 3
Array propagate - 332 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #46 / 117
- Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 149 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #45 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Across-Down Flip - 54 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #11 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2114 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 99 entries
Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #20 / 43
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1812 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #17 / 585
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 389 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #10 / 178
- Number of attempts: 1
Subnetting - 112 entries
Split up the IP addresses in the right way.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #22 / 37
- Number of attempts: 3
For all cases. - 145 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #11 / 102
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 383 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #72 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #40 / 211
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #442 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple addition - 312 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #80 / 118
- Number of attempts: 1
Create a table - 332 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #72 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 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: #187 / 288
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 307 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #6 / 139
- Number of attempts: 2
underscore_to_camelCase - 163 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #11 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #19 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #152 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 4
Free hyphen! - 165 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 431 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #48 / 124
- Number of attempts: 2
SQL to YAML - 47 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
- Best score: 71
- Best player score: 88
- Position: #14 / 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 127 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #18 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 180 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #38 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #96 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 167 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #36 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Change attribute to getter - 134 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #8 / 58
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #134 / 183
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 502 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #22 / 127
- Number of attempts: 6
Hello ${world} - 300 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #48 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #77 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2174 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #395 / 664
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2023 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #203 / 498
- Number of attempts: 2
Build a six - 277 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #14 / 94
- Number of attempts: 4
ASCII Art - 85 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #19 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #213 / 445
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #62 / 157
- Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 775 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #121 / 277
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #219 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1000 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #138 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #365 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #619 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 745 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #90 / 270
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #272 / 298
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1996 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: 13
- Position: #262 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #170 / 436
- Number of attempts: 1
Piphilology - 143 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #42 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 331 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #67 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #918 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #183 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1598 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #279 / 514
- Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 14
- Position: #231 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2297 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #43 / 173
- Number of attempts: 5
Enharmonic Equivalents - 57 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #11 / 36
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #81 / 772
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #882 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1009 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #425 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #367 / 758
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1486 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #375 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 3
Jan Bundesmann
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