Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 29
- Position: #4787 / 7447
- Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 356 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: 29
- Position: #54 / 128
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 40
- Position: #78 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3522 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #339 / 703
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 11
- Position: #216 / 518
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 14
- Position: #78 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3204 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 19
- Position: #170 / 305
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #779 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1183 / 3744
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #450 / 1761
- Number of attempts: 7