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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33990 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: #1573 / 7510
  • Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4704 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #472 / 1292
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #475 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 12
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #172 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4867 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #616 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #82 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #7 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #623 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2915 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #269 / 646
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 35
  • Position: #63 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2773 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #200 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5732 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #294 / 1278
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 8014 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #426 / 2154
  • Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2477 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #416 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 30
  • Position: #112 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4336 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #603 / 1198
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #810 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1339 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13037 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #951 / 3989
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13612 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #558 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 6
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