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: 23
- Position: #2573 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2108 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1257 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #223 / 630
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #123 / 376
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
- Position: #322 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2522 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #35 / 77
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #178 / 287
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1297 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #81 / 443
- Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1336 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2229 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
Number an outline - 249 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #13 / 75
- Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #820 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #370 / 737
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 13
- Position: #502 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Stephen Betts
Twitter: @stephenbetts
Technology, food, beer, ukulele, books'n'comics, the occasional political opinion, and cats. Software dev at NYPL, ex-O'Reilly/Safari, ex-BBC.