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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #601 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 13
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #411 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 24
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #76 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 14
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #72 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 20
Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #211 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 18
Number Sort - 328 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #26 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #686 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 8
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #58 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #204 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 14
Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 10
C Reformatting - 712 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #31 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 13
Paragraph sort - 479 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #15 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array of characters - 198 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #26 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 7
A grid of punctuation - 156 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #12 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 6
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #22 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #234 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #434 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 12
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #996 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #708 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2605 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 6
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