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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4743 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #58 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #12 / 742
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #308 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #68 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 3
Return the cow - 71 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 130
  • Position: #25 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 403 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #34 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3901 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 275 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #84 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 997 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #12 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 9
Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #25 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 5
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 11
  • Position: #7 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 5
Two become one - 710 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #87 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 859 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #8 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #79 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #14 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 7
Going underground.... - 330 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: 47
  • Position: #116 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #322 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #285 / 692
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 10
  • Position: #107 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12850 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #362 / 3944
  • Number of attempts: 7
Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #59 / 302
  • Number of attempts: 12
It's a factor - 91 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #8 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 2
Word frequency alignment - 273 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: #88 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 2
XML to JSON - 44 entries

Convert this xml file into json.

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 192
  • Position: #13 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 3
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #22 / 473
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2436 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #26 / 735
  • Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2925 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #62 / 764
  • Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 2064 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #93 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 8
Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #54 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 10
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 260 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #94 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #290 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3290 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #6 / 729
  • Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #268 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 5
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