Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: #257 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 7
vim = 22 / 7 - 424 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #54 / 130
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10545 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1353 / 2989
- Number of attempts: 6
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 592 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #175 / 357
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #747 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #355 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 14
- Position: #75 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #43 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 358 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #97 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 263 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #83 / 207
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 401 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #175 / 177
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 388 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #46 / 180
- Number of attempts: 8
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #331 / 420
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2369 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #404 / 717
- Number of attempts: 7
Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #109 / 218
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #486 / 735
- Number of attempts: 6
Append semicolon after expressions - 953 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #61 / 387
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #181 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 8
Case preserving word replacement - 436 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #54 / 175
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 934 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #313 / 617
- Number of attempts: 11
Reverse Simple Deletion - 772 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #261 / 432
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1215 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #138 / 491
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 565 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #195 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 645 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #170 / 236
- 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: 22
- Position: #103 / 521
- Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1207 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #145 / 489
- Number of attempts: 6
Braces or Brackets? - 713 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #85 / 253
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
- Position: #274 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #995 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 4