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Played Challenges

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: 24
  • Position: #2835 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #514 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1537 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #997 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #546 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #17 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #40 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 7
Piphilology - 146 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #27 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #275 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 10
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #348 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
  • Position: #579 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #359 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 10
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1180 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2817 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #1502 / 1755
  • Number of attempts: 1
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