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Played Challenges

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #49 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1151 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #218 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

  • Best score: 102
  • Best player score: 135
  • Position: #16 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split the words - 356 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #58 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #190 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 6
Letter case trickery - 1580 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: 11
  • Position: #228 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3080 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: 15
  • Position: #403 / 1058
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1313 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 985 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #101 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 5
Enumerate words - 241 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #61 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 187 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #27 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 7
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1534 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #47 / 432
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #506 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #613 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #89 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 4996 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #267 / 1723
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #310 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #1200 / 3472
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #349 / 1533
  • Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Hannes Remahl
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Founder, owner and CTO at applika.se @ApplikaSverige

entered into 19 challenges

contributed 1 challenges