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: 24
- Position: #2996 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #469 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #915 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #388 / 569
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1339 / 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: 15
- Position: #506 / 840
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #550 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #854 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #219 / 827
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 19
- Position: #65 / 376
- Number of attempts: 13
From argument to object - 1474 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: #240 / 450
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #28 / 700
- Number of attempts: 10
Copy three lines - 2840 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 / 635
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 32
- Position: #46 / 127
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2771 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #301 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #151 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 12
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #948 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 147 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: #16 / 44
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #83 / 203
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #269 / 385
- 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: 52
- Position: #126 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #131 / 443
- 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 - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #35 / 83
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 334 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #25 / 69
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #403 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1166 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #693 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2350 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #150 / 692
- Number of attempts: 17
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1696 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
Santa's naughty / nice list - 78 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: #18 / 24
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #536 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1695 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #629 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 7
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