Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 23
- Position: #2596 / 7454
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18798 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2124 / 3880
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1266 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #224 / 635
- Number of attempts: 6
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: 20
- Position: #126 / 385
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1524 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #331 / 463
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2529 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 3
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #36 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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: 14
- Position: #181 / 294
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1315 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2430 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #83 / 451
- Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1344 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2244 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 2
Number an outline - 280 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #14 / 78
- Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #829 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2574 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #381 / 761
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #502 / 3776
- Number of attempts: 3
Stephen Betts
Twitter: @stephenbetts
Technology, food, beer, ukulele, books'n'comics, the occasional political opinion, and cats. Software dev at NYPL, ex-O'Reilly/Safari, ex-BBC.