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Played Challenges

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: 26
Position: #3489 / 7384
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #415 / 1259
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1385 / 3852
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1205 / 1887
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #293 / 633
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #319 / 702
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2869 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #312 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #454 / 750
Number of attempts: 2

Start coding format - 149 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1003 / 1604
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #464 / 698
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2326 / 4174
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #118 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 43
Position: #176 / 371
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #525 / 1260
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #83 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 232 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #43 / 82
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: 16
Position: #65 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #909 / 2114
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 187 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #64 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

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: 11
Position: #72 / 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: #63 / 124
Number of attempts: 3

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: #46 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 258
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #125 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #211 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 130 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #64 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 415 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #78 / 117
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 127 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #39 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #108 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 628 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #232 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #954 / 1188
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 775 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #235 / 277
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 315 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #125 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #327 / 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: 25
Position: #168 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #211 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 794 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #202 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #121 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3461 / 4166
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #351 / 1132
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #260 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #97 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #406 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

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: 32
Position: #121 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #383 / 436
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #193 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2153 / 3677
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #635 / 1073
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2669 / 3950
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1017 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #145 / 303
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 398 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #160 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #231 / 443
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #295 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #473 / 748
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: 29
Position: #633 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #409 / 653
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #233 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #240 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #906 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #262 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #341 / 646
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #279 / 402
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1917 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #275 / 502
Number of attempts: 2

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: #444 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #372 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #285 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #402 / 567
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #349 / 542
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: #1547 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1