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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33353 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: #485 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4535 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #663 / 1255
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18613 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2316 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #368 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2124 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #12 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #163 / 742
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #441 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2554 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #124 / 694
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #631 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #29 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #185 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #174 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #6 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 4
Alsa configuration - 488 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #33 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 8
Align commas - 1049 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: #26 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 5
From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #13 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4261 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #208 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #58 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 15922 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #403 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3170 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #162 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #68 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #958 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #114 / 692
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3124 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: #237 / 1071
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12848 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #676 / 3943
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5028 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #420 / 1734
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12230 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #414 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6511 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #143 / 1602
  • Number of attempts: 8
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