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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: 27
  • Position: #3782 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4535 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1019 / 1255
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18615 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1389 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #406 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2124 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #416 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #417 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #171 / 742
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #465 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2554 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #138 / 694
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #715 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #104 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #952 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #221 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #9 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 8
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #86 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1242 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #66 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #147 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 430 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #84 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #107 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #200 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #62 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 9
Alsa configuration - 488 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #116 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #199 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 2
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #20 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #123 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #66 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #30 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4261 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #941 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #63 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2857 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3170 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #817 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #197 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #703 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #594 / 692
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3124 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: 15
  • Position: #462 / 1071
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12850 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2328 / 3944
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2925 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #186 / 764
  • Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5028 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #896 / 1734
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6512 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #998 / 1603
  • Number of attempts: 2
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