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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #1580 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #453 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #922 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 9
Aliases for cd - 908 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #58 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #342 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1275 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #491 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #205 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #257 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #640 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: 25
  • Position: #309 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #466 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 321 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: 9
  • Position: #36 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #253 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3825 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #598 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #951 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #63 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #348 / 453
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #747 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 12
  • Position: #221 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3181 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1667 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2363 / 3845
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7506 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #956 / 1846
  • Number of attempts: 2
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