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Played Challenges

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5671 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10209 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3400 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1751 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2074 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18165 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 93
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 168 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7373 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32598 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: 22
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 964 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4137 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

remove all lines in first part - 158 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11062 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15603 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 932 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 153 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 692 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1112 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10503 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3346 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1507 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: 10
Number of attempts: 9

VimGolfNight - 478 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 2995 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
Number of attempts: 5

Counting in binary - 406 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12671 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 1918 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 4859 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1842 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1773 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

Generate English Alphabets - 425 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 4

Increment, increment, increment.... - 530 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 534 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1270 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11327 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 6