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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33240 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: #75 / 7331
  • Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #370 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1123 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #262 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #322 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #392 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #56 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5519 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #393 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 835 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: 13
  • Position: #28 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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: #34 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7687 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #31 / 2079
  • Number of attempts: 11
C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #80 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vim's not included features - 183 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #55 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #84 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 17
  • Position: #155 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 4
Assign numbers to fields - 97 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #47 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #37 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #75 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 765 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #113 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line 'em up! - 387 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: 17
  • Position: #21 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1135 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #119 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #781 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3408 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #99 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 13
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #586 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 6
Enharmonic Equivalents - 55 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #14 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 3
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