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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1613 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 67
  • Position: #175 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #532 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 479 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #133 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #495 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 27
  • Position: #3828 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1625 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1667 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #166 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #400 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #457 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2196 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 189 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #63 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1020 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: 19
  • Position: #107 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #113 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1298 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 192 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: #71 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 709 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #88 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #166 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 296 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #63 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
  • Position: #228 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 2
Manual SQL - 178 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #32 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #89 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 874 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #187 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #820 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #314 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #393 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #167 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #81 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #112 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2171 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #964 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #251 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 473 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #136 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #381 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #78 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffle puzzle - 361 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #48 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3134 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1664 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #412 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #212 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #487 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #250 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 581 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #259 / 366
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #287 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 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: 22
  • Position: #290 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2367 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 2
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