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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #11 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #234 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #340 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #394 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #345 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #33 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #534 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #5 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Restore order to the alphabet - 212 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #30 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #17 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #537 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #221 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #30 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1699 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #30 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove all lines in first part - 226 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: 15
  • Position: #29 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line 'em up! - 427 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #80 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 256 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #24 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #90 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #217 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 331 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #42 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #107 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #79 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 4
Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #77 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #31 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 8
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #152 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #752 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #198 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #582 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1643 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: #71 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1166 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #85 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3069 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #75 / 790
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2237 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #113 / 687
  • Number of attempts: 7
Append semicolon after expressions - 1088 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #88 / 427
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #362 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1490 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 3
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Louis Burke, Software Engineer, Gaming enthusiast.

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