Played Challenges
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #155 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 31
- Position: #5582 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1164 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #909 / 1530
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1234 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 2
TAR archive pretty print - 25 entries
Will you use isk ?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #11 / 12
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #81 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #422 / 573
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1335 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #334 / 843
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 307 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #47 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #147 / 256
- Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1203 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: #171 / 247
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #95 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2211 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #599 / 633
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #685 / 839
- Number of attempts: 1
My cafe needs a new menu - 25 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: #7 / 7
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7849 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #901 / 1870
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 24
- Position: #293 / 378
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #592 / 639
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #218 / 750
- 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: 36
- Position: #75 / 128
- Number of attempts: 4
Number Sort - 307 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 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2759 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1812 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #511 / 585
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #764 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 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: #202 / 288
- Number of attempts: 4
Order and join - 965 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #241 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #270 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
Create bison tokens - 35 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
- Best score: 85
- Best player score: 93
- Position: #9 / 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2023 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #206 / 498
- Number of attempts: 4
simple format (3) - 73 entries
reverse two column values!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #14 / 22
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 34
- Position: #175 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 166 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #79 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple format (2) - 335 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #46 / 70
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #291 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #811 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #375 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #269 / 581
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1341 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #570 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3296 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 1
Array Transposition - 178 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #44 / 54
- Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 297 entries
Complete these (weird) calculations.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #39 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #548 / 748
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 410
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1424 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 132
- Position: #81 / 143
- Number of attempts: 6
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #349 / 404
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: #201 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
- Position: #2593 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Santa's naughty / nice list - 79 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 - 25 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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