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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #250 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #402 / 1585
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #78 / 695
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #55 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #642 / 1258
Number of attempts: 7

Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #6 / 68
Number of attempts: 4

Entries sort - 81 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #15 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #222 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 148
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #170 / 440
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 996 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #93 / 284
Number of attempts: 7

Line 'em up! - 392 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: #19 / 110
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffled numbers - 234 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: #27 / 93
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 104
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #93 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 219 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 788 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: 12
Position: #32 / 242
Number of attempts: 6

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #75 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #113 / 1129
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #28 / 351
Number of attempts: 6

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #78 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #35 / 293
Number of attempts: 10

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: 11
Position: #46 / 578
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #156 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #106 / 247
Number of attempts: 7

Split the words - 356 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: 40
Position: #80 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #769 / 3667
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #202 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #75 / 302
Number of attempts: 7

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #76 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #291 / 473
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #229 / 738
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 768
Number of attempts: 12

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #368 / 1736
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1001 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: #411 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #209 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #92 / 384
Number of attempts: 6

Braces or Brackets? - 884 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #127 / 288
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #122 / 1616
Number of attempts: 12