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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #168 / 467
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 59
Position: #107 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #371 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2494 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #490 / 706
Number of attempts: 2

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #194 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1882 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #339 / 509
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2066 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #158 / 377
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #131 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #372 / 524
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4798 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1486 / 1891
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #277 / 406
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1118 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: 12
Position: #269 / 321
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3180 / 4185
Number of attempts: 2

For all cases. - 160 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #82 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 112 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #59 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 978 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #223 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: 13
Position: #156 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #128 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #74 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1117 / 2125
Number of attempts: 2

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #85 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #298 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #46 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #41 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #344 / 389
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 559 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #284 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #197 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 800 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #174 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #875 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #124 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #94 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #407 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2504 / 3679
Number of attempts: 1

Untangle my tail, please! - 60 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 33
Number of attempts: 3

Delete unwanted lines - 408 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #191 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #115 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #59 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 290 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #194 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #131 / 191
Number of attempts: 3

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 74
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #135 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1047 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #136 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1045 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #555 / 660
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 124
Position: #53 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #31 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #118 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #122 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

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