Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #500 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #223 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 2
O Christmas Tree - 109 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #18 / 43
- Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 349 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #37 / 127
- Number of attempts: 2
Split the words - 357 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: 35
- Position: #39 / 109
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1635 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 478 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #30 / 114
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1598 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: 12
- Position: #308 / 514
- Number of attempts: 3
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 70 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #27 / 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 252 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #48 / 76
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1208 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 5
Pairs of numbers - 361 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #14 / 134
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign list - 170 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #46 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
Draw the Go board - 141 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #2 / 49
- Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1017 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: 16
- Position: #11 / 303
- Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 282 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #40 / 220
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 404 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #112 / 190
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 654 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #114 / 359
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #122 / 164
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #178 / 443
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairs Indenting - 452 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #158 / 195
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #165 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #424 / 748
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #354 / 772
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #187 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #744 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #249 / 643
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #306 / 646
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1070 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #348 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 5