Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #3022 / 7454
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #472 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18798 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #925 / 3880
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #400 / 585
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1348 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #520 / 860
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #552 / 635
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #879 / 1173
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #232 / 886
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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 / 385
- Number of attempts: 13
From argument to object - 1524 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: #243 / 463
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2922 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #28 / 706
- Number of attempts: 10
Copy three lines - 2875 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 / 641
- Number of attempts: 6
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 547 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: #47 / 131
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2778 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1848 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #307 / 592
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #151 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 12
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #959 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 180 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: #18 / 48
- Number of attempts: 4
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 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: #87 / 210
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 849 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #285 / 407
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 979 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: #131 / 165
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2430 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #133 / 451
- Number of attempts: 20
convert yml into java pojo field - 866 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: #113 / 229
- Number of attempts: 4
unknown command - 169 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #35 / 89
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 335 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #26 / 70
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #403 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1173 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #697 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2365 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3525 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #150 / 706
- Number of attempts: 17
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1710 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 3
Santa's naughty / nice list - 91 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: #20 / 27
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #536 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1739 / 3776
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7252 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #664 / 1790
- Number of attempts: 7
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