Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32892 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: #1029 / 7268
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4428 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #183 / 1240
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18377 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #279 / 3787
- Number of attempts: 6
Separate the lines - 155 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #37 / 84
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4635 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #510 / 1855
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3453 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #170 / 1120
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3375 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #31 / 759
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7680 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #592 / 1835
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
- Position: #102 / 369
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 17
- Position: #49 / 417
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #202 / 686
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4644 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #498 / 1539
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11135 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #966 / 4111
- Number of attempts: 2
Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #33 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 363 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: #48 / 167
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 896 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #63 / 349
- Number of attempts: 5
Missing Library and a Typo - 830 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #10 / 204
- Number of attempts: 6
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 156 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #6 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 913 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #44 / 256
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a table - 302 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #23 / 98
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 334 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #33 / 114
- Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1288 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #80 / 246
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7512 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #308 / 2039
- Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph sort - 406 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #29 / 118
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #69 / 431
- Number of attempts: 10
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #321 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #46 / 279
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15719 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #618 / 4110
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12733 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #798 / 3918
- Number of attempts: 1
Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #6 / 37
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #98 / 732
- Number of attempts: 8
Switch function arguments - 1971 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #142 / 625
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 4903 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #482 / 1699
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11595 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #492 / 3404
- Number of attempts: 4