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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #600 / 7384
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #75 / 3852
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #77 / 633
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #87 / 702
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 149 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #43 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #459 / 1604
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #15 / 316
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #689 / 4174
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 64 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #35 / 1260
Number of attempts: 6

Simple addition - 312 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Nesting SASS - 262 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 94
Number of attempts: 3

underscore_to_camelCase - 163 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #26 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #203 / 2114
Number of attempts: 3

Double and switch - 38 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 219 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 76
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 187 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 165 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: #69 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 431 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #98 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 47 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 71
Best player score: 72
Position: #3 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #85 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #100 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 255 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #13 / 93
Number of attempts: 7

Inner hyphens - 130 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #59 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 134 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

ascii-art diamond - 37 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #2 / 16
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 127 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 85 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

No naked if allowed! - 33 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

Best score: 46
Best player score: 57
Position: #8 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 575 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 157
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 118 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Conway sequence - 24 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #10 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #118 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #436 / 4166
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #312 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 270
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 235 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #77 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1996 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: 12
Position: #200 / 581
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1002 / 3677
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1549 / 3950
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate words - 251 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1009 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #438 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #224 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 107 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #1 / 50
Number of attempts: 8