Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32904 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: 27
- Position: #3736 / 7270
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5959 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #89 / 1463
- Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2748 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #20 / 815
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7680 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #465 / 1835
- Number of attempts: 3
html paragraph to table - 583 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 86
- Position: #106 / 121
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2794 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #17 / 625
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1093 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #329 / 570
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 365 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #32 / 168
- Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 338 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #14 / 115
- Number of attempts: 4
C Reformatting - 686 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 63
- Position: #125 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3026 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: 14
- Position: #10 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 6
Number an outline - 223 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #49 / 72
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1862 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 6
Pairs of numbers - 345 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #14 / 129
- Number of attempts: 4
Draw the Go board - 138 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #4 / 47
- Number of attempts: 7
Hole-in-one - 973 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: #11 / 297
- Number of attempts: 4
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 67 entries
Look everywhere
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #19 / 29
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2367 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #313 / 716
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #132 / 732
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11634 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1028 / 3412
- Number of attempts: 4