Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #198 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 362 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #67 / 85
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1662 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: #214 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #700 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1922 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 165 entries
col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #69 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 274 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: #56 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #108 / 171
- Number of attempts: 1
REDRUM - 150 entries
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #37 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 559 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #159 / 200
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 884 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #45 / 288
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #349 / 737
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1010 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2