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: 22
- Position: #500 / 7454
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #223 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 2
O Christmas Tree - 109 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #18 / 43
- Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 357 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #38 / 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Split the words - 372 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #40 / 112
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1645 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 526 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #31 / 117
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1644 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #312 / 520
- Number of attempts: 3
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #28 / 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 280 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #49 / 78
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1220 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 5
Pairs of numbers - 364 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #14 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign list - 193 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #48 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Draw the Go board - 149 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #2 / 51
- Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1024 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #11 / 305
- Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 298 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #40 / 227
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #114 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 678 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #114 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 637 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #128 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1617 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #181 / 448
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #161 / 199
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #168 / 448
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2574 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #433 / 761
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #357 / 779
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #189 / 420
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #748 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #253 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1939 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #313 / 655
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13129 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1101 / 3775
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7252 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #358 / 1790
- Number of attempts: 5