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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #554 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #84 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #59 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #389 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #11 / 386
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #10 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #675 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #34 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 6
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #18 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #201 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #188 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #10 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #36 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #295 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #22 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #228 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 206 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #10 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #426 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #168 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #988 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #355 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #703 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #421 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7610 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #153 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 13
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