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: 28
- Position: #4328 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #917 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #3700 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #384 / 569
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1760 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #786 / 840
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #652 / 827
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 23
- Position: #271 / 376
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 18
- Position: #237 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #500 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #330 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 36
- Position: #70 / 127
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2734 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #442 / 581
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #924 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #362 / 443
- Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #102 / 223
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #847 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3290 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2337 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1681 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #187 / 188
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #1671 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #1545 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1