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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 23
Position: #2459 / 7519
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #878 / 1294
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2494 / 3906
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4887 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #27 / 1916
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #45 / 773
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #304 / 1677
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #304 / 712
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1645 / 4261
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 277 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #38 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1168 / 2158
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 696 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1479 / 4226
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #30 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #45 / 277
Number of attempts: 2

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 271 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #50 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #81 / 310
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2070 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #150 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 739 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #46 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #41 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #74 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 399 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 40
Position: #72 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #211 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1688 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #194 / 526
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 15
Position: #424 / 1094
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #114 / 3993
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1041 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #170 / 308
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 310 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #37 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 75 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 212 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #45 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 704 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #38 / 372
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1643 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #336 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 503 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #84 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #180 / 488
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2641 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #601 / 780
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #168 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3069 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #171 / 790
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2237 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #453 / 687
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1088 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #402 / 427
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #203 / 1766
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 875 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #257 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #111 / 868
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1304 / 3914
Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 279 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

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