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Played Challenges

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #50 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #222 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 88 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

  • Best score: 102
  • Best player score: 135
  • Position: #17 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split the words - 368 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: 36
  • Position: #60 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #190 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #232 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 15
  • Position: #413 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1330 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1018 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: 17
  • Position: #104 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 5
Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #63 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #29 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 7
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #47 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #530 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #629 / 777
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #89 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #267 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #321 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1251 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #365 / 1706
  • Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Hannes Remahl
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Founder, owner and CTO at applika.se @ApplikaSverige

entered into 19 challenges

contributed 1 challenges