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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #273 / 1257
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1492 / 3842
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #34 / 569
Number of attempts: 14

V to the i - 4751 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1248 / 1879
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #153 / 840
Number of attempts: 9

Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #18 / 98
Number of attempts: 7

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #255 / 630
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #72 / 635
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #585 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 305 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #105 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #64 / 314
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2841 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 531 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 46
Position: #123 / 131
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 385 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #49 / 176
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1036 / 1258
Number of attempts: 9

Adam's challenge - 957 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #80 / 266
Number of attempts: 11

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #129 / 287
Number of attempts: 6

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #63 / 255
Number of attempts: 8

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #275 / 418
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2165 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #619 / 662
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 385
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #322 / 1186
Number of attempts: 9

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #123 / 440
Number of attempts: 9

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2915 / 4161
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #662 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 37
Position: #576 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #205 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1388 / 3667
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #987 / 3946
Number of attempts: 8

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #100 / 439
Number of attempts: 11

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #129 / 473
Number of attempts: 15

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #121 / 441
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #545 / 738
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #405 / 768
Number of attempts: 9

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #165 / 652
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #483 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #40 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1730 / 3581
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 33
Position: #262 / 1616
Number of attempts: 12