Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #1614 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #749 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2208 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #368 / 573
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1351 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #626 / 843
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #460 / 633
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #532 / 1151
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #225 / 839
- Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7849 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #1197 / 1870
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: 26
- Position: #314 / 378
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #287 / 702
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 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: 49
- Position: #122 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #256 / 698
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1812 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #449 / 585
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #156 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #436 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2174 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #412 / 664
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #90 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #359 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 972 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #114 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #109 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #293 / 445
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: #57 / 225
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1076 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #825 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #697 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2358 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1702 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1714 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 2