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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: #606 / 7500
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1591 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #159 / 766
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #521 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #612 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #168 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1040 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #352 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 4
Alsa configuration - 525 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #102 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1105 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: 11
  • Position: #8 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #190 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1305 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #821 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2789 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 17
  • Position: #887 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2916 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2574 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #1037 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 2
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