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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4887 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #250 / 1916
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #402 / 1677
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #78 / 712
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #57 / 276
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #660 / 1281
Number of attempts: 7

Restore order to the alphabet - 212 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #6 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

Entries sort - 111 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 / 45
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #222 / 357
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 285
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 342 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 156
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1699 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #177 / 459
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #97 / 292
Number of attempts: 7

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: 17
Position: #19 / 116
Number of attempts: 7

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: #27 / 100
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 379 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 112
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: #94 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 236 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 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 829 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 / 255
Number of attempts: 6

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #75 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #113 / 1147
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #28 / 362
Number of attempts: 6

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #80 / 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: #35 / 310
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 2070 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 / 596
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #156 / 451
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #112 / 260
Number of attempts: 7

Split the words - 399 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: #85 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #769 / 3717
Number of attempts: 6

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: #202 / 1094
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1041 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: #77 / 308
Number of attempts: 7

lamb had a little Mary - 659 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #80 / 179
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 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: #301 / 488
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2641 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #243 / 780
Number of attempts: 7

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: #76 / 790
Number of attempts: 12

switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #368 / 1766
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2041 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 659
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1094 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 / 682
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1419 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #210 / 544
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1757 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #110 / 459
Number of attempts: 6

Braces or Brackets? - 1209 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: #158 / 365
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #133 / 1897
Number of attempts: 12