Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 24
- Position: #2888 / 7447
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4643 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #569 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18776 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1093 / 3875
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4818 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1177 / 1898
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #540 / 635
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2875 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #363 / 641
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2364 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #164 / 755
- 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: #451 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #460 / 701
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11495 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2218 / 4213
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #79 / 122
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7953 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #912 / 2140
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1048 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #186 / 425
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #140 / 184
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #34 / 61
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #74 / 141
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #108 / 269
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4308 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 1192
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #126 / 281
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #106 / 290
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2537 / 4192
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #631 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #253 / 354
- 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: 14
- Position: #353 / 586
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2129 / 3691
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: #888 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2334 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2552 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #597 / 757
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #542 / 779
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2147 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #418 / 666
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #900 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1551 / 3744
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #560 / 1761
- Number of attempts: 1