Played Challenges
delete swap - 1776 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #19 / 550
- Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1657 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #131 / 556
- Number of attempts: 5
Rural Post - 4468 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #33 / 1095
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 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: #191 / 7415
- Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #668 / 1536
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18712 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1348 / 3859
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4799 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #7 / 1892
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10848 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1609 / 3061
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7902 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #395 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2872 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #299 / 640
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2355 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #307 / 752
- Number of attempts: 2
Start coding format - 155 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #47 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #286 / 701
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11444 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1522 / 4193
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7903 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #675 / 2125
- Number of attempts: 4
Sorting a glossary - 131 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #13 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 983 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #150 / 259
- Number of attempts: 3
Manual SQL - 160 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #36 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #174 / 269
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #686 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #139 / 444
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 entries
For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #12 / 15
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #114 / 290
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 347 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #74 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #2 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 223 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #4 / 83
- Number of attempts: 5
Condensed Cases - 804 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #102 / 247
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #9 / 64
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 426 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #63 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15977 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1995 / 4177
- Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 240 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #7 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
vim1001 - 307 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #46 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #139 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #7 / 116
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 179 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #39 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 460 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #10 / 158
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #188 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2020 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: #181 / 584
- Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #288 / 437
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1852 / 3680
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #599 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12929 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2158 / 3961
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #849 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12740 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1398 / 3680
- Number of attempts: 3