Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32962 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: 31
- Position: #5314 / 7276
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #635 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1103 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #957 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #330 / 683
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2063 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #1107 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 916 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: 20
- Position: #122 / 257
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7535 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1791 / 2048
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #121 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
Angular naming conventions - 283 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #74 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 395 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #90 / 111
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 481 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #82 / 123
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #695 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #391 / 434
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 758 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #177 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3109 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #600 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #235 / 342
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #903 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
- Position: #338 / 500
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #605 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2264 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #398 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 16
- Position: #2088 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 2
Durga Swaroop Perla
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