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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #941 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #143 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #179 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #161 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #302 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #28 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #234 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 5
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: 23
  • Position: #269 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1566 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #178 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #172 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: #30 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #839 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 426 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #15 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #57 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 9
create arrows in a list - 146 entries

Add arrow at same distance

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Nesting SASS - 302 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #27 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #29 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #108 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change attribute to getter - 182 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #18 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #40 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python challenge - 211 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #30 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2258 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: 14
  • Position: #439 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #9 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #103 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #280 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #541 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #55 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1090 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #260 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1589 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #924 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1619 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
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