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: 22
- Position: #71 / 7421
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #474 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #785 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #173 / 579
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #257 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #106 / 851
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #15 / 101
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10852 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #875 / 3063
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #107 / 1162
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #235 / 865
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7905 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #562 / 1876
- Number of attempts: 3
Hash staircase - 56 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #21 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 829 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #205 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #231 / 380
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #128 / 178
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #238 / 703
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2872 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #115 / 640
- Number of attempts: 7
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #40 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries
Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3 / 19
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1205 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 314 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #100 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #671 / 701
- Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 145 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #11 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 130 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #10 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #386 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #177 / 380
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #402 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 8
Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: #29 / 174
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #62 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #27 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 6
Vim's not included features - 240 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #35 / 65
- Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2219 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 672
- Number of attempts: 6
Build a six - 294 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #67 / 95
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1023 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #4 / 248
- Number of attempts: 2
snowflake fractal - 51 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #15 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #80 / 141
- Number of attempts: 3
Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #10 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 167 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #40 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #72 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 327 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #242 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #117 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #303 / 354
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #80 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #47 / 585
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #777 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #589 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 9
Shebangs for all - 1999 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #34 / 516
- Number of attempts: 8
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #111 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Build a six - 294 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries
Clean and group.
Cool or not? - 829 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...