Played Challenges
Find fix point of cos - 1121 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #171 / 336
- Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2243 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #444 / 487
- Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1497 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 76
- Position: #226 / 393
- Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2011 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #200 / 370
- Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4362 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #77 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 10
Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #7 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #11 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1114 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #63 / 517
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33384 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: 22
- Position: #2135 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #954 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #166 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2541 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
- Position: #233 / 840
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #509 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #389 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #580 / 826
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #1338 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1373 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2341 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1509 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 16
- Position: #658 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1089 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 419 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #23 / 103
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1819 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 9
Matt DB
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