Played Challenges
Paste a column after a column - 1668 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #92 / 365
- Number of attempts: 8
HS exam question - 1275 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #126 / 347
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat symbols in list - 1210 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #74 / 274
- Number of attempts: 11
delete swap - 1267 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #222 / 402
- Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1298 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #85 / 291
- Number of attempts: 7
Python dataclasses - 824 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #99 / 216
- Number of attempts: 6
Python: Def to Lambda - 418 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #49 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2108 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #169 / 427
- Number of attempts: 8
xrandr outputs and dashes - 632 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #156 / 208
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #1188 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 11
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 858 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #96 / 248
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #388 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 5
Right Align Part of the line - 108 entries
The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 34
- Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 1033 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #75 / 266
- Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10744 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1158 / 3030
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #322 / 506
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1460 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #192 / 374
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1448 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #335 / 443
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #326 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 530 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #35 / 125
- Number of attempts: 8
On Being Stylish - 71 entries
Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #13 / 18
- Number of attempts: 7
Make HTML List - 997 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #94 / 265
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 529 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #88 / 130
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #45 / 210
- Number of attempts: 7
ninja substitution - 1350 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #130 / 258
- Number of attempts: 16
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #726 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 7
Order and join - 913 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #131 / 248
- Number of attempts: 7
Replace and keep the case - 405 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #58 / 114
- Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 298 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #40 / 93
- Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 501 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #12 / 133
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2345 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #199 / 439
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap assigned value - 593 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #162 / 242
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4228 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #667 / 1179
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 765 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #86 / 273
- Number of attempts: 3
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #52 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 962 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #49 / 280
- Number of attempts: 12
Line 'em up! - 387 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #31 / 108
- Number of attempts: 6
Condensed Cases - 777 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: 12
- Position: #27 / 240
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1553 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #194 / 576
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2151 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3408 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #447 / 689
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #131 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 2
Execute immediate SQL - 85 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
- Best score: 60
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #12 / 30
- Number of attempts: 4
Python: Lots of function arguments - 98 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #36 / 44
- Number of attempts: 1
Add links to an existing HTML table - 72 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #8 / 28
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 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: #217 / 435
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2399 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #34 / 727
- Number of attempts: 8
Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #33 / 221
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #61 / 759
- Number of attempts: 11
Switch function arguments - 2019 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #74 / 637
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove noise from HTTP log - 675 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #189 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #798 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 3
HTML to Haml - 838 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #133 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
CSV to JSON - 158 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 76
- Position: #14 / 63
- Number of attempts: 6
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #265 / 542
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #349 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 13
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #73 / 1561
- Number of attempts: 14