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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1447 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #144 / 470
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1787 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #106 / 556
Number of attempts: 4

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #361 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #487 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #82 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 329 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #18 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #134 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33703 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: 23
Position: #2472 / 7438
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #204 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #171 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #942 / 1273
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6325 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #1248 / 1543
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2259 / 3869
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #125 / 282
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #640 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #521 / 855
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1215 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #167 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10877 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #853 / 3070
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #293 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3597 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #922 / 1167
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #606 / 871
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #723 / 1880
Number of attempts: 5

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #200 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1028 / 1630
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 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: 11
Position: #224 / 323
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2097 / 4206
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #453 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 50
Position: #207 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1067 / 1268
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 987 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: 22
Position: #196 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #90 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: 19
Position: #266 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7933 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1022 / 2134
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2225 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #465 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #149 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2054 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #263 / 506
Number of attempts: 4

Delete to the end of the current line - 814 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #310 / 392
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 52
Position: #131 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 25
Position: #217 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #135 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #925 / 1191
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #205 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #176 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2584 / 4188
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #611 / 1138
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 15
Position: #403 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #891 / 3687
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1726 / 3968
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #112 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #95 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #157 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #202 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #474 / 755
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1588 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #479 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #118 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12935 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1754 / 3725
Number of attempts: 1