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: 22
- Position: #1614 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #747 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2202 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #365 / 569
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1349 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #625 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #459 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #527 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #222 / 826
- Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #1193 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 26
- Position: #312 / 376
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #285 / 700
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 49
- Position: #121 / 127
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #253 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #447 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #156 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #436 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2165 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: #411 / 662
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: #88 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #356 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 932 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: #111 / 158
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #107 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #291 / 443
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 29
- Position: #57 / 223
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1074 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #825 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #695 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2353 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1700 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1700 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2