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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #331 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #179 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 1
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 270 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #43 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #273 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #65 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #22 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 9
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 98 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #10 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split the words - 394 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #7 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1854 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #69 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 11
Letter case trickery - 1663 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: 11
  • Position: #254 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #416 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 9
Pairs of numbers - 387 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #60 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1039 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #67 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #134 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #55 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 8
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #66 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #29 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 7
Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #98 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #73 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #306 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #169 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove dupes from array - 1362 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #151 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #333 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #25 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 12
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #315 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3985 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #768 / 852
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1354 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7612 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #318 / 1875
  • Number of attempts: 4
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