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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 27
Position: #3978 / 7442
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #2015 / 3072
Number of attempts: 2

Word Blender - 148 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #28 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #1049 / 1881
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #763 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #152 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 47
Position: #318 / 382
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #233 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #89 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 78
Position: #20 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Circle in a square - 152 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 54
Number of attempts: 4

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #132 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 54
Position: #13 / 68
Number of attempts: 5

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #28 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Changing URL path in CSS - 138 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 45
Position: #33 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #288 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 206 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 42
Position: #40 / 80
Number of attempts: 5

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: #563 / 757
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #43 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #93 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #241 / 778
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #348 / 665
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #125 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 100
Position: #35 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #681 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #97 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #112 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #89 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #332 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 336
Number of attempts: 5

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #101 / 117
Number of attempts: 2

Here, piggy, piggy... - 80 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 99
Position: #18 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #44 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #59 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 31
Position: #93 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 47
Position: #32 / 110
Number of attempts: 8

Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #57 / 149
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #455 / 654
Number of attempts: 2

Getters & Setters: Java - 211 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 113
Position: #26 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 100
Position: #42 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #146 / 407
Number of attempts: 4

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 114
Position: #38 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #160 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2018 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #183 / 519
Number of attempts: 4

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 124
Position: #53 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Table Reshuffle - 439 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #60 / 142
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #128 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #197 / 460
Number of attempts: 3

Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #35 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #53 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #227 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #225 / 346
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #107 / 238
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #133 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #259 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #653 / 804
Number of attempts: 1