Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32962 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: 28
- Position: #4020 / 7276
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1069 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2218 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #325 / 729
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1061 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #503 / 683
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1983 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #193 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #864 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 290 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #58 / 156
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7535 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #970 / 2048
- Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 149 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #58 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 183 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #51 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Sudoku table - 58 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #15 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #191 / 262
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #689 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #218 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 306 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #118 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #275 / 434
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #126 / 279
- Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 367 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: 20
- Position: #60 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #199 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 758 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: 15
- Position: #157 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2448 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #921 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #229 / 342
- Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 702 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #215 / 260
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #264 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1951 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: 15
- Position: #390 / 572
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #361 / 422
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #175 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2036 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #478 / 685
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1553 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: #267 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: #852 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2246 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1966 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: 35
- Position: #425 / 467
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2370 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #278 / 718
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #377 / 735
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #470 / 627
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1367 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1905 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #389 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1777 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #336 / 468
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #427 / 521
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #385 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2083 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #516 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 3