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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33717 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: #1573 / 7441
  • Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #469 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #475 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 12
Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #169 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4813 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #616 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #80 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3865 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #7 / 873
  • Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #617 / 704
  • 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: 16
  • Position: #266 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 6
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #61 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11479 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2761 / 4207
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #200 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #289 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7942 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #426 / 2137
  • Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #407 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #109 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #599 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #810 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10679 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1339 / 3688
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #944 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12955 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #558 / 3730
  • Number of attempts: 6
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