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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #1494 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 13
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #932 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2739 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #456 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #802 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #778 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 562 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: 40
  • Position: #108 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2743 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #189 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #939 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #407 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 95
  • Position: #455 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 874 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: 36
  • Position: #196 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #390 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3674 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2357 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #940 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1743 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 3
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