Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: 34
- Position: #6266 / 7421
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #247 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #130 / 753
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #401 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #75 / 701
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1923 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #39 / 273
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1706 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 2
Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #29 / 72
- Number of attempts: 7
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #27 / 269
- Number of attempts: 5
Entries sort - 90 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: #14 / 40
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #889 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #32 / 281
- Number of attempts: 5
readability - 327 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #56 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #33 / 444
- Number of attempts: 8
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #89 / 290
- Number of attempts: 8
Line 'em up! - 421 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: 17
- Position: #18 / 114
- Number of attempts: 7
Shuffled numbers - 246 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #26 / 96
- Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #93 / 239
- Number of attempts: 3
Condensed Cases - 804 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: 12
- Position: #31 / 247
- Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #230 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 11
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #111 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #27 / 354
- Number of attempts: 7
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #78 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #33 / 300
- Number of attempts: 11
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 11
- Position: #45 / 585
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #155 / 437
- Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #32 / 250
- Number of attempts: 13
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #765 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #96 / 702
- Number of attempts: 13
Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 10
- Position: #133 / 518
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 14
- Position: #200 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #580 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 20
- Position: #32 / 480
- Number of attempts: 12
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #35 / 754
- Number of attempts: 14
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #182 / 777
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #366 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1449 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #120 / 1706
- Number of attempts: 10