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: 26
- Position: #3513 / 7421
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2882 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1218 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #469 / 703
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2385 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #281 / 291
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1049 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1685 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #651 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
- Position: #519 / 585
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2176 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
- Position: #637 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Colin Jacobs
Twitter: @coljac
Astro and Deep Learning PhD student, tech commentator, political hack. Technology, science, nerdiness.