Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 24
- Position: #2985 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #467 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #913 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #385 / 566
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1336 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #501 / 834
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #546 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #845 / 1134
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #212 / 798
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1460 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: 19
- Position: #65 / 374
- Number of attempts: 13
From argument to object - 1448 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: 18
- Position: #238 / 443
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2869 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #28 / 695
- Number of attempts: 10
Copy three lines - 2825 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #114 / 631
- Number of attempts: 6
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 530 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: 32
- Position: #45 / 125
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2765 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1795 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #299 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #151 / 1249
- Number of attempts: 12
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #937 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 146 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #15 / 43
- Number of attempts: 4
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 627 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: #81 / 200
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 729 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #259 / 359
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 926 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #125 / 157
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2345 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #130 / 439
- Number of attempts: 20
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: 30
- Position: #109 / 223
- Number of attempts: 4
unknown command - 154 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #35 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 328 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #25 / 68
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4228 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #403 / 1179
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1163 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #690 / 1124
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2342 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3408 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #150 / 689
- Number of attempts: 17
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1693 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 3
Santa's naughty / nice list - 77 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.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #17 / 23
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #536 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1682 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #616 / 1561
- Number of attempts: 7
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