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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1581 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #401 / 527
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #106 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2366 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #89 / 669
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #397 / 498
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1105 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 278
Number of attempts: 6

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #80 / 370
Number of attempts: 19

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #108 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #97 / 1072
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #217 / 457
Number of attempts: 6

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #224 / 296
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #97 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #118 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #286 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #166 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 26
Position: #3690 / 7364
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #163 / 254
Number of attempts: 4

Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #64 / 196
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #516 / 1257
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #687 / 1517
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1327 / 3842
Number of attempts: 10

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #190 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #431 / 569
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1467 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #609 / 840
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #218 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1919 / 3044
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 48
Position: #497 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1047 / 1144
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #555 / 827
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #795 / 1865
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #518 / 700
Number of attempts: 1

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: #175 / 635
Number of attempts: 9

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #87 / 127
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3143 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #247 / 1258
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #186 / 261
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1424 / 2101
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #325 / 662
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2004 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #267 / 496
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #503 / 1186
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2009 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2481 / 3667
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #3498 / 3946
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: #1858 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1