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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #1535 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 14
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #938 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2747 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #475 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #601 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 26
  • Position: #790 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #59 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #143 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 11
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #854 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: 32
  • Position: #358 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1566 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #445 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #689 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #107 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 14
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #539 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 44
  • Position: #124 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1161 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 7
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #551 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1259 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 5
JSON string rotation - 86 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #23 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1786 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 212
  • Position: #459 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 31
  • Position: #141 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1145 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3974 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #243 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2854 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 7
attr_aligner - 3566 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #640 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 6
Letter case trickery - 1686 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #500 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 3
Untangle my tail, please! - 74 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #36 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3202 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #927 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3168 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array Transposition - 216 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 116
  • Position: #58 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #525 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 11
Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #546 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3047 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #800 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 6
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