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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 944 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #20 / 333
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1298 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #121 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4105 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #4 / 1015
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1048 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 481
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32910 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
Position: #1164 / 7271
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #208 / 1241
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18385 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #354 / 3789
Number of attempts: 8

Separate the lines - 159 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #43 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 832 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #12 / 209
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #528 / 1857
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #91 / 815
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10541 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #703 / 2989
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1447 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #132 / 369
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #209 / 686
Number of attempts: 6

Array propagate - 311 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #60 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2215 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #220 / 728
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4654 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #555 / 1542
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 285 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: #34 / 152
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #196 / 683
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11140 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1041 / 4113
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 570
Number of attempts: 6

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 235 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #16 / 127
Number of attempts: 3

Back to the roots - 43 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #15 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 836 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 205
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #88 / 1228
Number of attempts: 6

create arrows in a list - 88 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #52 / 63
Number of attempts: 4

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 18 entries

* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 11
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 302 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #32 / 98
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7522 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #339 / 2044
Number of attempts: 5

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #4 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 915 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #40 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #187 / 431
Number of attempts: 9

convert yml into java pojo field - 811 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #44 / 216
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 306 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #29 / 64
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #340 / 1166
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #90 / 434
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 15740 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #662 / 4115
Number of attempts: 6

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 221 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #9 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1951 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: 12
Position: #216 / 572
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1200 / 3637
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3026 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
Position: #307 / 1044
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 285 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #32 / 51
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #663 / 716
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #14 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1828 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 625
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #505 / 3413
Number of attempts: 4