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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #75 / 3842
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #77 / 630
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #85 / 700
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 147 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #42 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #459 / 1585
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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 / 314
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #689 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 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 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #35 / 1258
Number of attempts: 6

Simple addition - 310 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 / 117
Number of attempts: 3

Nesting SASS - 261 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 93
Number of attempts: 3

underscore_to_camelCase - 162 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 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #203 / 2101
Number of attempts: 3

Double and switch - 37 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 186 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 / 73
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 159 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: #68 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #97 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 45 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 72
Best player score: 72
Position: #2 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #83 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #99 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 252 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #13 / 91
Number of attempts: 7

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 133 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

ascii-art diamond - 35 entries

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

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #1 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 124 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 82 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

No naked if allowed! - 25 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: #7 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Conway sequence - 23 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 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 411 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #118 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #436 / 4161
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #311 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 226 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #75 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #198 / 578
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1002 / 3667
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1547 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate words - 250 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1001 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 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #224 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #1 / 49
Number of attempts: 8