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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