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Played Challenges

delete swap - 987 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #19 / 324
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1296 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #119 / 444
Number of attempts: 5

Rural Post - 4236 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #33 / 1042
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #191 / 7301
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #645 / 1489
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1328 / 3811
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4650 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #7 / 1863
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1598 / 3022
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #395 / 1844
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #295 / 630
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #301 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Start coding format - 136 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #44 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #281 / 689
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1509 / 4140
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #658 / 2067
Number of attempts: 4

Sorting a glossary - 116 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #13 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #141 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Manual SQL - 114 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 49
Best player score: 74
Position: #30 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #169 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #676 / 1176
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 436
Number of attempts: 1

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 33 entries

For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!

Best score: 32
Best player score: 61
Position: #10 / 13
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #109 / 280
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 324 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #71 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #1 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 213 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 80
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 773 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: 14
Position: #98 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 147 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 394 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #63 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1981 / 4133
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 222 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #7 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 274 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #44 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #134 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 239 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 168 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #39 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 434 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 153
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #183 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1959 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #175 / 574
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #282 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1832 / 3646
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: #586 / 1057
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2137 / 3930
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4996 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #839 / 1723
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 11865 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1352 / 3472
Number of attempts: 3