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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32798 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: #724 / 7244
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4621 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #21 / 1849
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2087 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #27 / 620
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2802 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #427 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2201 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #50 / 725
  • Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 4605 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #320 / 1526
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2478 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #369 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11092 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #6 / 4096
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5419 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #587 / 1222
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 285 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #19 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7480 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1082 / 2028
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 168 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #14 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort files from hosts - 137 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #20 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 858 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #137 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 2
Separating firstname & lastname - 109 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #25 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 1
Restore order to the alphabet - 162 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #21 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 752 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #121 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 3
Entries sort - 71 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #4 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4168 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #4 / 1163
  • Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 737 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #192 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 361 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #68 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 304 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #75 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 3
Condensed Cases - 735 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: #110 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 379 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #16 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15687 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3027 / 4103
  • Number of attempts: 1
vim1001 - 253 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #16 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3099 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #8 / 1104
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 935 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #134 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 1
Suffix sort - 196 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #41 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 421 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #118 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 416 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #7 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 5
Gray area - 678 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #146 / 253
  • Number of attempts: 2
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 209 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #36 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1089 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #75 / 288
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1935 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: 13
  • Position: #238 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 699 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #158 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 833 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #19 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vim tetris - 347 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #84 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1119 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #219 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shuffle puzzle - 302 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #11 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10519 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #208 / 3631
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3378 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #408 / 680
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1530 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: 14
  • Position: #413 / 495
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3015 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: 17
  • Position: #779 / 1040
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12694 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #376 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 1943 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #372 / 464
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2349 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #504 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4894 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1529 / 1696
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1800 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #302 / 617
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11497 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #278 / 3374
  • Number of attempts: 8
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