Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: 29
- Position: #4661 / 7455
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #407 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #464 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #718 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #114 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2545 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 15
- Position: #405 / 586
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #247 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #707 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13145 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #433 / 3778
- Number of attempts: 4