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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #1566 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 24
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #471 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #299 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #613 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #75 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #484 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #604 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 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: #78 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 328 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: #85 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1178 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 4
Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #21 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1657 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 9
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #59 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 6
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: 29
  • Position: #50 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 4
unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #17 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #4 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 16
Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #4 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 17
Space out the alphabet - 1699 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #344 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #807 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 12
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 11
  • Position: #106 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1336 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete unwanted lines - 451 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #170 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 11
Array Transposition - 216 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #51 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2641 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #719 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 408 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #147 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1767 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7722 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #1492 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 2
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