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: #1024 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 7
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #60 / 254
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #463 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 21
- Position: #1295 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2139 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 7
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #500 / 516
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #467 / 630
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #1620 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 20
- Position: #179 / 376
- Number of attempts: 12
From argument to object - 1474 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: 21
- Position: #374 / 450
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #852 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1050 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 7
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #101 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #423 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 9
One to Ten - 2165 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: 18
- Position: #555 / 662
- Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #72 / 443
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2597 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2264 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 15
- Position: #494 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1771 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 7
ASCII-art Histogram - 310 entries
Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 116
- Position: #52 / 55
- Number of attempts: 3