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: 26
- Position: #3545 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #986 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #276 / 569
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #247 / 516
- Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #912 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 1
Start coding format - 147 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #80 / 127
- Number of attempts: 1
Number Sort - 305 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #141 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: 44
- Position: #234 / 364
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #51 / 69
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 626 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #180 / 250
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #235 / 274
- Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #73 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #214 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 411 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #131 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 12
- Position: #352 / 511
- Number of attempts: 4
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 17
- Position: #229 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #341 / 401
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #215 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #526 / 737
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #1794 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2