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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #1565 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #611 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #470 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2441 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #8 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4650 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #615 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2792 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #64 / 826
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3496 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #6 / 784
  • Number of attempts: 11
multiple cursor alternative - 1453 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: 19
  • Position: #67 / 372
  • Number of attempts: 12
Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #994 / 1572
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1182 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1333 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 2
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 21 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 116
  • Position: #12 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 1
Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #88 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 721 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #67 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 922 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #142 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 496 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #74 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #127 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 21
convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: 31
  • Position: #135 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 151 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #38 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #129 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #806 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1338 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1678 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #162 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 8

Contributed Challenges

move titles next to url, in quotes - 496 entries

had trouble with something similar

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

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entered into 25 challenges

contributed 2 challenges