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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #1383 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #458 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2207 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #126 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #230 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #367 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1125 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #305 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #124 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #957 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #205 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 8
convert yml into java pojo field - 874 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: #15 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #595 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1167 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2335 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #294 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1681 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1720 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 5
Rajesh Sharma
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