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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #160 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 31
  • Position: #5656 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1193 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6399 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #930 / 1564
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1245 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 2
TAR archive pretty print - 45 entries

Will you use isk ?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #15 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 209 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #84 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #438 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1349 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
  • Position: #347 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 3
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 365 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #52 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #154 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1273 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #181 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 45
  • Position: #103 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2246 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #604 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #744 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
My cafe needs a new menu - 36 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

  • Best score: 126
  • Best player score: 189
  • Position: #9 / 9
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #913 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1592 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: 24
  • Position: #301 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 28
  • Position: #599 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #218 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #79 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #89 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2777 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #522 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #781 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #207 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 4
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #248 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #270 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create bison tokens - 60 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

  • Best score: 85
  • Best player score: 93
  • Position: #11 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2095 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #212 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 4
simple format (3) - 104 entries

reverse two column values!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #17 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 34
  • Position: #182 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #84 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #48 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1699 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #300 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #811 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #379 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 13
  • Position: #276 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1341 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #583 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 14
  • Position: #306 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3332 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array Transposition - 216 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #49 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 343 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #41 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2641 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #570 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1088 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #243 / 427
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1443 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 330 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 132
  • Position: #83 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 6
Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #360 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 611 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #218 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
  • Position: #2785 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Santa's naughty / nice list - 113 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

My cafe needs a new menu - 36 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

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