Played Challenges
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1058 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #54 / 216
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33240 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: 28
- Position: #4435 / 7331
- Number of attempts: 6
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 858 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #31 / 248
- Number of attempts: 6
Get mail address from outlook format - 609 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #35 / 193
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 140 entries
When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #14 / 49
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #323 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6141 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #146 / 1500
- Number of attempts: 13
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #646 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 14
Quote modules - 1033 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #57 / 266
- Number of attempts: 7
Aliases for cd - 830 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #80 / 148
- Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules (ver.2) - 200 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #27 / 54
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #85 / 566
- Number of attempts: 8
Unsemantic linewrapping - 873 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #67 / 221
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #726 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 13
- Position: #231 / 834
- Number of attempts: 5
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 295 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #16 / 66
- Number of attempts: 10
Add string initializers to an enum - 850 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #47 / 250
- Number of attempts: 6
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1133 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: 19
- Position: #41 / 237
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10744 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #522 / 3030
- Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #185 / 506
- Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #752 / 1134
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3563 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #112 / 799
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7782 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #327 / 1853
- Number of attempts: 8
Cool or not? - 773 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #57 / 222
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #86 / 374
- Number of attempts: 7
html paragraph to table - 587 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #17 / 122
- Number of attempts: 18
From argument to object - 1450 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: 17
- Position: #133 / 444
- Number of attempts: 5
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 729 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #48 / 172
- Number of attempts: 10
Every other line - 2869 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #64 / 695
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #161 / 631
- Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2289 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #249 / 740
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #649 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2530 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #270 / 690
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1377 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1795 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #258 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7687 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #547 / 2079
- Number of attempts: 8
One to Ten - 2128 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #482 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #57 / 200
- Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 1959 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #163 / 483
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 970 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #226 / 240
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 5
- Position: #226 / 359
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2345 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #29 / 439
- Number of attempts: 26
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: 29
- Position: #83 / 223
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4228 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #478 / 1179
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1026 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 11
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #402 / 1124
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #203 / 293
- Number of attempts: 6
Mess in revision history - 1157 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #61 / 245
- Number of attempts: 17
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1512 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #340 / 1066
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1091 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 7
Coordinates placeholder - 62 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #31 / 36
- Number of attempts: 4
Alphabet soup - 406 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #58 / 99
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #610 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11973 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #627 / 3506
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6338 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #261 / 1562
- Number of attempts: 6