Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32972 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: #1535 / 7278
- Number of attempts: 14
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #906 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2677 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #448 / 561
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #601 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #738 / 815
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 258 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #51 / 93
- Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2103 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #143 / 623
- Number of attempts: 11
Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #720 / 764
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: 32
- Position: #340 / 369
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1262 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #395 / 417
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #664 / 686
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2801 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #107 / 625
- Number of attempts: 14
Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #539 / 1550
- Number of attempts: 6
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 476 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #105 / 116
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1161 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 7
Team names - 1780 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #528 / 571
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5444 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #1211 / 1229
- Number of attempts: 5
JSON string rotation - 51 entries
Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #17 / 18
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7541 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1706 / 2049
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 212
- Position: #430 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 818 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: #134 / 217
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1113 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15749 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3874 / 4117
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3122 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #243 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2792 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 7
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #619 / 685
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 19
- Position: #477 / 500
- Number of attempts: 3
Untangle my tail, please! - 54 entries
You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #30 / 30
- 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: #896 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3110 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 2
Array Transposition - 168 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 116
- Position: #49 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #525 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 11
Make it more readable - 1905 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #522 / 625
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 21
- Position: #2702 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #693 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 6